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...pieces, which were deemed anti-nationalistic, subsequently made her a target for Croatian media and political figures. Ugresicc eventually left Croatia in 1993. She categorized her works as “patchwork fiction,” a combination of personal memoir, critical commentary, and fiction. Ugresic also told the crowd that the “luggage of labels”—how she referred to the literary market’s tendency to label writers based on their nationality—bogs down literary text and its meaning. Identifying labels also discriminate against a text, she added. Alexander...
...glad we have such a diverse crowd here,” said George J. J. Hayward ’11, the political action chair for the BSA. Hayward said that the issues that are being discussed in this election appeal to a wide cross-section of demographics and political affiliations...
...crowd of close to 100 people—including 10 participants, family, friends and passers-by—braved the pouring rain and packed the street outside b.good’s Dunster Street locale to partake in and spectate upon the feats of engorgement...
...least this is the conclusion I came to after sitting down with her at Denver's Westin Tabor Center during the Democratic National Convention. I'd been tagging after her for a couple of days, from one rapturous audience to another, including the crowd at a community-service event for soldiers, at which an Iraq-war veteran introduced her by announcing, "Ma'am, I know you weren't in the military, but I'd follow you anywhere." If all that hadn't quite convinced me (it was the Democratic Convention, after all), I'd guess it took roughly the first...
...month or so since then she has been in lockdown, either lashed to McCain's side to boost the size of his crowds, or hunkered down in debate prep and remedial candidate school. No press conferences, few interviews, no questions allowed from the reporters traveling with her, no appearances on The View to stare down Joy Behar. Rather than playing to her strengths as a fresh face in an unendurably long campaign, they hid her away in a kind of conspicuous vote of no-confidence - which, one can only imagine, took a toll on her. I was struck watching...