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...blind children sends him to America; there, a wealthy woman becomes his patron and sponsors his studies. Mehta's calm, unhurried prose captures the fable-like events of his life. His effortless description of how good and evil things just happen to him and how he manages to cope as best as he can is the principal charm of his memoirs. In All for Love, about his love affairs, women walk into his life, announce that they love him; then they announce that they don't anymore and leave. In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Return to Exile | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

Before water pressure began to be restored, students and staff at Harvard struggled to cope with the lack of running water...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Loses Water Pressure | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

...graduation, Hornschemeier began self- publishing a series of black- and-white experimental comics (recently compiled as The Collected Sequential). He soon began integrating color into his increasingly sophisticated works, and early last year he released his first graphic novel, Mother, Come Home, the story of a boy struggling to cope with his mother's death and his father's grief. The book, which features a bold visual design and a narrative that is by turns cerebral and heartfelt, set the tone for The Three Paradoxes. The artist says his main goal is "basically, just ask a lot of questions." There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphic Novelists: Comic Book Heroes | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

...Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the two Koreas and occasionally drew hostile fire from North Korean soldiers across the border--even though an official cease-fire had been in place since 1953. Jenkins had served with enough distinction to find himself leading reconnaissance missions. But he couldn't cope with the danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In From the Cold | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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