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...riding accident rather than to a whale. If the events that define a character's personality and interaction with the world have been greatly embellished or never occurred, a story loses its meaning and power to move. Frey's A Million Little Pieces cannot, as the author espouses, contain emotional truth, since the principal character, Frey, is not true to himself. If the defining moments of the book are falsehoods, Frey is lying to his readers. James Sheil Dublin "The Trouble With Memoirs" was extremely hard on Frey. You suggested that the author has not recovered from the problem...
...Conquistador seeking the tree for his lover Isabel, the Queen of Spain, who is under threat by conspiring forces of the Holy See. The book opens with a Hollywood style set piece as Thomas leads a band of soldiers in an assault on a huge Mayan temple thought to contain the Tree. As hundreds clash on the temple steps a stony-eyed Mayan priest tears the still-beating heart out of a Franciscan friar. It's an exciting sequence that takes best advantage of artist Kent Williams' ability to combine expressive, natural characterization with fantastically interpretive imagery. In a class...
...Harvard players took solace in the fact that they had learned how to stop the Highlander offense from succeeding.“We know now what NJIT can do,” Fitz said. “All they have are these outside hitters. As long as we can contain them, we should be effective.”RUTGERS-NEWARK 3, HARVARD 0In the opening round of the Golden Dome Classic, the host Scarlet Knights trounced visiting Harvard, easily coasting to a 3-0 (30-21, 30-22, 30-21) victory.Hitting a whopping .382 for the match, Rutgers-Newark...
...Saturday Night Live, NBC reran the show without O'Connor's performance. To Muslims, disrespect for the Prophet is a rallying point beyond worldly politics. And so as anger plays out in Muslim hearts, the challenge for the West in the days ahead is to figure out how to contain...
...support for the IAEA vote by having aides brief foreign officials on a trove of documents that, according to U.S. diplomatic sources, expose a clandestine Iranian military nuclear-research operation. The documents, found in 2004 on a laptop computer, which U.S. intelligence believes came from an Iranian engineer, contain data on tests for high explosives, a design for a missile re-entry vehicle and a diagram of a green-salt production line. Separately, those areas of research could imply fairly benign intentions. But if an Iranian military agency has been coordinating all the research, the U.S. assessment...