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...hasn't eaten in 44 days; his siblings in the camp in Iraq are starving themselves too. His other daughter, Hoda, a doctor who watches over the strikers, says he and the others have reached a point where their blood pressure is so low they could die at any time. "I hope the U.S. fulfills its promise to the people of Camp Ashraf soon," says Farzaneh...
...realm of the genuinely distinctive. Hoffmann underscores his intimacy with the story, which closely parallels his own life, by sharing his name with the narrator. The reader enters the narrator’s life during the 1940s. Living in what would become Israel, Hoffmann’s mother dies in the first line while British soldiers mill around the fringes of his memory. As is his wont, the speaker transmits his reactions to the moments that are most eventful by way of the images he recalls alongside them. The memories that tie themselves to his mother’s death...
...2666” will comprise context that itself is transcendent, but that masterpiece is still over a decade away.The novel excels in other, albeit minor places. There are moments of startling insight, however distracted it may be—“We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.” There are also moments of humor— “It was simply that he didn’t fool me with...
...generally vignettes portraying the ultra-violence of the streets and the drug trade. “Fat Lady Sings,” for example, tells the story of a drug dealer caught on the wrong corner who, after being beaten and sliced up with razor blades, simply refuses to die. “Sonny’s Missing” has a similar plotline, where a traitor to the Wu Gambino gets himself slowly and torturously whacked for a drug-related indiscretion. These accounts are admittedly brutal, but the combination of the evocative story-telling style and the somewhat fantastical...
...digital form: You, a courageous Harvard student who looks a little like Mario circa 1985, must dodge zillions of identical (suspiciously Asian looking) tourists as you scramble to gather school supplies and deliver them to Annenberg before you get caught in the crossfire of three camera flashes (and then die). The game is called Yard Quest. It’s as awesome as it sounds. More after the jump.The old school graphics and sound effects are kind of cute, and Flyby was sad when we beat the only level in about 10 minutes. If the brilliant creators Adam Gold...