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Kunzru's My Revolutions stages the same dilemma more deftly in the story of ex-radical Chris Carver, who's living in deep cover in placid suburban England 30 years after his crew went on a bombing spree. Kunzru's theme is summed up in the circularity of the title: when Chris' cover gets blown, he has to confront the way idealism becomes what it opposes ("War can only be abolished through war") and the way lies--like Carver's capitalist-pig identity--can turn into the truth...
...compared to recent years. This is part of a continuing trend in which it seems many undergraduates are opting to leave the social sciences in general for more diverse academic endeavors. Though a drop in raw numbers may be disappointing for the Gov department’s marketing crew, we believe that this reduced concentration size is a good thing. Traditionally, Government has ranked among the largest of concentrations on campus, consistently wooing hundreds of undergraduates into its folds. But whatever bragging rights these high numbers may warrant, this “bloated” department has been unusually disappointing...
...they are here together again and yelling the England that will never be...”“And he can believe that if he opens up his eyes the benches will be full of all the boys lost to the sky and his friends the closest, his crew, the closest, so near that he can take their hands and know they are well and never were harmed and never were frightened, never lost.”“And he can believe that he is forgiven.”“He can believe so much...
Perhaps if the captain of the IT crew had been paying closer attention, or the server had not been going so fast in such dangerous conditions, this catastrophe would have been averted. But all of these speculations cannot unmake the facts of the wreck. FAS server users were to experience the devastation of e-mail shortages and an inability to access my.harvard for—in some cases—upwards of three hours...
...ambulance crew arrived within several minutes to this pedestrian mall in the Negev, just 10 kms away from Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor. As a doctor rushed among the injured, he paused to open the jacket of one severely wounded man and found that he was wearing an explosives vest. The victim was a second suicide bomber, who was also supposed to blow himself up. Says Chief Inspector Kobi Mor, "When I arrived at the area, one of the people told me that there was a terrorist who was still alive. I pulled...