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...Crow is an epic farce, poking fun at Aburiria's idiotocracy as misunderstandings and mistaken identities throw its characters into one ridiculous adventure after another. All written in the lyrical style of a master storyteller, perfect for reading - and laughing - aloud. - By Jumana Farouky 4. Seamus Heaney, District and Circle...
...collection by Heaney, perhaps the world's greatest living poet, is an event. And this one is a killer - literally. District and Circle (the title suggests the London Underground and, surely, its 2005 terror bombings) throbs with anxiety, foreboding and half-suppressed violence. Heaney's language is a symphony of sounds, surprises and look-'em-up words, like his barber's "cold smooth creeping steel and snicking scissors." You'll want to sing his lines out loud - until you realize how deadly serious the post-9/11 Heaney can be. "Anything can happen," he warns, "the tallest towers/ Be overturned...
Zhang Haoming looks like a million dollars. Or, more precisely, half a million, the amount he spent on a recent Saturday afternoon as he strolled around Beijing's funky 798 district, a series of crumbling redbrick factories that house the Chinese capital's largest concentration of art galleries. Appearing at an opening for the painter Yang Shaobin, the 44-year-old millionaire businessman stands out from the crowd of black-clad, ponytailed dealers, critics and artists, more John Travolta than Jasper Johns. His black hair is permed into loose curls that flounce slightly as he walks, his torso covered...
...also left out of the lineup….Midway through the third period, sophomore Nick Coskren was whistled for kneeing, a penalty rarely called by hockey officials….The Crimson doesn’t play another league game until Jan. 5, when Harvard travels to the Capital District to take on Rensselaer.—Staff writer Karan Lodha can be reached at klodha@fas.harvard.edu...
...introduce more competition, diversity and dynamism to the nation's schools, the commission proposes that schools be run by independent contractors - in some cases groups of teachers - who agree to meet requirements set and measured by the district or else lose the contract. Parents would choose the school their child attends...