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Now, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do...
David Letterman used to do a segment on his show called "Brush with Greatness," in which an audience member recalled a fleeting encounter with a famous person--say, bumping into Joan Rivers on an elevator. American Son (Henry Holt & Co.; 294 pages), the much anticipated memoir of John F. Kennedy...
Faced with growing opposition within his own party, Deuba gave the army carte blanche to wipe out the Maoists. I spoke to several young girls held prisoner in Nepalgunj jail accused of belonging to the guerrillas' political wing. All told the same story of the police keeping them blindfolded for...
New York debutantes didn’t encounter this mind-set. “It used to be like that in the North,” Ma says. “You read The Age of Innocence and hear all about the Fifth Avenue debutantes. The houses had their own...
The film centred around Saran’s announcement to his relatives of his homosexuality, along with the looming possibility that he had contracted HIV during a recent sexual encounter.