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...swoon, giving the book starred reviews. Says Kirkus, "Readers who loved such a roomy, generously plotted, and detailed novel as the Pulitzer-winning 'Empire Falls' won't be able to resist this first collection of seven stories by the Maine novelist...a wonderful distillation of Russo's gifts for crystal-clear narration, subtle character portrayal, and irrepressible humor... There may be more important writers around, but none is more likable, or more dependably entertaining and rewarding, than Russo." PW agrees. "Russo's sterling reputation is largely due to his astounding ability to present the tangled emotions of troubled parent-child...
...Chanel and Dior, Amouage combines more than a hundred natural oils?including silver frankincense from the Dhofar region of Oman, and rock rose, which grows on barely accessible Omani hillsides. Amouage comes in clever minaret-shaped bottles decorated with traditional Omani designs. One of these gold and leaded crystal bottles will set you back about $3,000 in Paris or London, so you might want to opt instead for a $5 bottle of scented oil from the souk. That's more than enough to conjure up the flavor of Oman long after you have left the "land of frankincense...
...gaze into a crystal ball and try to imagine what historians who will be here in the future will hope to find here,” she says...
...recall that the recovery has been "on its way" since at least the beginning of 2001. (They at least have the decency to be constantly "revising" their forecasts.) But Wall Street firms still hire their own economists at big salaries, mainly to give the rest of the company a crystal ball to lean on - and to hide behind when it loses money...
...those projectors house TI's DLP chip, which consists of an array of tiny mirrors that flip on and off, refracting light through a prism and onto the screen. Kodak is developing a competing product set to launch next year. Its chip, manufactured by JVC, uses a liquid-crystal display instead of mirrors and, in a recent demonstration, appeared to match DLP's in quality. "The holdup right now is not the technology--it's the economics," says Elizabeth Daley, dean of the film school at the University of Southern California. The major movie studios and theater owners are tangled...