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...uncertainty that reigns in San José is perhaps similar to tranquility, but it is not the same; people go home early… then doors close and San José agonizes in the heat.” Muted violence is doubly frightening; harder to confront, yet perversely easier to live with, it becomes an atmosphere, lurid and inert. It’s this atmosphere that permeates “The Armies,” Columbian writer Evelio Rosero’s latest novel. Like the best literary treatments of trauma, “The Armies” utters...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Violence Penetrates Society, the Psyche in ‘Armies’ | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...Fate of Guantánamo Bay Obama repeatedly promised during the presidential campaign to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, but Guantánamo proved much easier to say than to do. Craig was under pressure to eliminate related Bush policies that made it infamous: indefinite detention without charge or trial and the use of military commissions - special courts that curtailed defendants' rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Recent Middlebury College graduate and Commissioner of the IQA Alex R. Benepe said that while regulation broomsticks are not required in Quidditch matches, they pose several advantages. The brooms are shorter than regular household brooms and thus easier to maneuver on the playing field...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Club Quidditch Team Works Budget Magic | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...have weighed heavily on small business as demand for building contractors, which are often smaller businesses, dried up in the housing bust, and the cost of importing raw materials like copper for contracting work has risen due to the weak U.S. dollar. Large companies with overseas operations have an easier time hedging against those risks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business, Key to Recovery, Is Still Hurting | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...There’s usually an initial shock period where people don’t understand what I’ve said,” Xie says. “Sometimes I just say I’m pre-med because it’s easier...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pre-vets Chart Unique Career Path | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

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