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...might guess, this book does not admit much humor--it is, after all, an account of Daru's slow and painful descent from yuppie respectability to scumminess. But Moth Smoke never gets cumbersome, and even at its most heavy, the narrators are a sympathetic and colorful bunch. They are all, by Pakistani standards, moneyed and elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems...
...sure that teenagerhood has passed.) Personally, I foresee a time when people will enter "recovery" at 13 and pen best-selling memoirs on their struggles before they've even taken their SATs. Expect a crop of precocious old souls filling the talk shows with painful reminiscences of their abrupt descent into addiction after, in the months preceding their Bar Mitzvah, their Internet start-up lost half its market cap because of an unforeseen jump in interest rates...
...tapes and finishing the album on her own terms, Mann has emerged with a stronger, more fiercely independent voice. In one of the album's highlights, co-written by Elvis Costello, Mann casts herself as the protagonist in "The Fall of the World's Own Optimist." She tracks her descent from innocence to her current perception of reality, where there's no point overriding objections, because that's "flogging the horse/When the horseman has up and died...
Earlier this year, Stephen A. Mitchell and Kristine L. Forsgard of Eliot House and Donald H. and Cathleen K. Pfister of Kirkland House announced their plans to terminate their respective masterships. The AAC has noted that before these masters step down, the only masters of ethnic descent will have been Dunster House masters Karel and Hetty Liem. The AAC hopes that the new appointments for masters in Eliot and Kirkland Houses will alter this lopsided imbalance. To this end, the AAC intends to send a letter to the College administration requesting that they pay special consideration to potential masters...
...members noted that of the 12 couples currently serving as House masters, only Karel and Hetty Liem of Dunster House are not of Caucasian descent. Committee members pointed to the recent retirement of Eliot and Kirkland House masters as a chance to change this statistic...