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...They were very enthusiastic, but they weren’t pushy. They seemed to be a positive presence,” said Andrew J. Conrad ’05, who volunteers at the shelter. “After I gave them a dollar, one of them balanced a chair on his chin...
...Jewish-American experience, "The Name of the Game," (DC Comics; 176pp; $29.95) means to be about how a "good" marriage used to be defined by what it did for you socially. Set in the world of New York's early-20th century German-Jewish elite, it focuses on Conrad Arnheim, a lazy, boorish lout who marries first for business and then for ego. The cover sums up the theme pretty accurately: a married couple, screaming at each other, with fists clenched, stand against a background of a stiff, older-generation, family portrait...
...Eventually "The Name of the Game" becomes a multi-generational story as the rebellious daughter's sensitive poet husband turns into a new version of the venal Conrad. But long before that the book has degenerated into a crude lesson on the corruption of the bourgeoisie, the likes of which hasn't been seen since depression-era borscht-belt theater. The characters remain one-dimensional types (the boozy black-sheep brother; the frigid trophy wife; the stuffy matriarch) who come and go in one unbelievable, manipulative scene after another. The book gallops along furiously. Within one page Conrad's first...
...ENNOBLED. CONRAD BLACK, 57, with the award of a seat in the British House of Lords; in London. Black is a millionaire newspaper magnate whose holdings include the Daily Telegraph in London and the Jerusalem Post. He chose to renounce his Canadian citizenship because Canada's PM Jean Chr?tien, often criticized in Black's papers, had enforced a rarely used law to block Black's peerage. CHARGED. YASSER AL-SIRI, 38, with conspiring to kill Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud; in London. Al-Siri, an Egyptian, is accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud...
Fortunately for Conrad and his daughter, plausibility becomes less and less of an issue as the hour grows near. Though his deeply psychotic patient has allegedly been in and out of mental wards for the past decade, Conrad takes roughly 20 minutes (no exaggeration necessary) to figure out what’s really troubling...