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...first full-length novel in seven years. Loosely based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, it's the story of Kafka Tamura, a 15-year-old boy who flees Tokyo to find the meaning of life. He comes from the kind of dysfunctional family Murakami often portrays. Kafka's mother and elder sister leave when he's four; his father, a renowned sculptor, predicts his son will commit incest and then dies...
...Rove, 48, never graduated from college, leaving the University of Utah in 1971 to become executive director of the College Republicans. He began working for the former President Bush during a stint at the Republican National Committee in 1973, then moved to Texas to join the elder Bush's political action committee. He stayed in Austin for years, divorced his first wife and remarried, working as a consultant and running a mail order business until 1999, when George W. Bush persuaded Rove to come work on his campaign. Two years later, Rove was ensconced in the White House, launching...
...crowd loves it. By the time Aa Gym ("elder brother" Gym), finishes his hour-long sermon with a plangent Islamic hymn, scores of women and men are openly weeping, and the roar of applause continues long after the TV cameras have been switched off. When he plunges into a crowd after a performance, there are always eager hands thrust out reaching for him, some fans even bowing down and kissing the preacher's hand, whispering a name to be remembered in his prayers. And always there are scores of squealing teenage girls hovering on the sidelines...
HANOVER, N.H.—In an election season filled with forgotten geriatrics like Walter Mondale, Frank Lautenberg and Elizabeth Dole, it seemed only fitting that Harvard turned to two of its elder statesmen, captain Neil Rose and senior wideout Carl Morris, to defeat Dartmouth on Saturday...
...With its elder statesman back in charge, the Crimson (4-2, 3-0 Ivy) held on for the 24-17 win at Princeton Stadium to stay undefeated in Ivy play...