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Naipaul’s latest novel, the thin, peculiar and effective Half a Life, goes some distance toward showing that the two spheres represented by his travelogues and his fiction are, for Naipaul, hardly separate. Half a Life’s protagonist, Willie Somerset Chandran, undergoes a series of life...
These themes have been treated elsewhere—most flamboyantly, by Salman Rushdie in East, West and The Satanic Verses. In Naipaul’s younger days, he had a sense of humor as sharp as Rushdie’s, but always muted by wry restraint. By now this restraint...
With the short squad that Harvard features, the veterans on the team knew that physical fitness was a priority. The returning players came back from the lay-off in excellent condition, earning the praise of their coach.
McGreevey?s lead, while substantial, is not immune to an election day surprise, as New York Governor George Pataki reminded Republican voters over the weekend. Pataki himself was expected to lose the 1994 gubernatorial race to Mario Cuomo; he wound up winning in an upset. Sunday, McGreevey left his last...
Moreover, even the strongest coalition against terrorism can't put all the world right. Tragedy is part of the human condition; the rational practice of international politics is always at the mercy of the irrational, of people (or nations) with a passionate sense of the rightness of their cause and...