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There could be nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolaño than Bolaño himself, which is a shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, in 2003, Bolaño was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaño was a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life. And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy has annoyingly but rightly pointed...
...ruling Nazi party unleash bands of thugs on Jewish communities throughout Germany and Austria, ostensibly to avenge an attack on a German diplomat in Paris by a young German Jew whose family had been forced to flee Hitler's regime. By dawn on Nov. 10, 92 Jews lay dead, among the 400 beaten, shot or driven to suicide by the abuse. Some 267 synagogues had been torched and hundreds of Jewish businesses destroyed, and 30,000 Jews had been rounded up and dispatched to concentration camps. It was, most historians believe, the pogrom that portended the systematic murder...
...been known to send out cheesecakes from Eli's Bakery in Chicago to campaign donors and the many Democratic candidates he has recruited over the years. Once, when a pollster made him angry, Emanuel sent him a dead fish...
...Election losses are always tough, but by no means is the Republican Party dead, nationally or at Harvard,” Motley said...
...bags. Some cable [channel] got it. Jimmy was three weeks out from shipping out overseas. We get through the speech, and you have pretty much the senior class of the Washington press corps all lined up. You know they all came to see if he was going to drop dead. He didn't bitch, he didn't moan. There were no recriminations. There was nothing except a mental and emotional confidence--this is what I set out to do, and I will do this, and if I fail I fail, but no one will tell me I failed until...