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This year's third (!) and most ambitious novel about Dickens is Wanting, by the Australian - or if you like, Tasmanian - writer Richard Flanagan. Wanting begins when Dickens is mourning the death of his ninth child, Dora, and feeling increasingly alienated from his wife and from himself. "They say Christ was a good man," he cracks, "but did he ever live with a woman?" Flanagan's Dickens is a man who has only ever lived emotionally through his novels. Acting in Collins' play, which was called The Frozen Deep, he sets free feelings he was accustomed to keeping tightly confined...
...H1N1 virus surpassed 10,000 worldwide, schools in the U.S., Mexico and other countries continued to close--despite a CDC statement calling the move ineffective in containing the illness. Japan has shut more than 4,000 schools; in states like Texas and New York--which reported its first flu death May 17--some students have been home for two weeks...
...well past his sponsored year, and when his pursuit of Italian painting led him to England in 1890, Berenson met Mary Smith Costelloe, who was married at the time with two young children. Costelloe followed Berenson to Florence as his pupil and lover. In 1900, a year after the death of her first husband, Costelloe married Berenson and the couple moved into I Tatti.APOGEE AND DEATHWidely regarded as the preeminent authority on Renaissance art, Berenson published several books on the Italian Renaissance and advised a number of museums and collectors in the United States, including most notably Isabella Stewart Gardner...
...Purple Heart. 15. Use your Viking skills to score an entrance visa to Minnesota, and then take the dairy-creamery business by storm using wit and courage to win over the consumers of the Southwest. 16. Drink 100 cans of Bawls in one sitting and chill with Death for a little while in HeartAttack City before escaping gloriously on the wings of an angel who looks strangely like Drew G. Faust. 17. Play Super Smash Brothers on Nintendo 64 until you enter a new dimension. In said new dimension, hang out with Tupac, who is still living...
...instead of finishing his math problem sets, he bides his time in the Holyoke Center working as the director of Harvard University Health Services. When Rosenthal first moved into Harvard Yard, he was unsure if he wanted to be a doctor at all. It would take the death of a close friend to convince Rosenthal to pursue a career in medicine. Instead, upon moving into his Thayer Hall residence, Rosenthal imagined himself becoming a teacher after graduation. Sylvester Sterioff, Jr. ’59, Rosenthal’s freshman year roommate—who is now a doctor?...