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...next." He was sent there at six weeks old by his parents, who were unmarried and residing in New York, to be reared by his great-aunt. His upbringing became the collective endeavor of a group of elderly relatives with abiding faith in both religion and folklore who spent endless hours telling fantastical stories--"tales of ghost dogs and people rising from the dead." The residue of these stories has found its way into Kenan's fiction. In the short story Clarence and the Dead, the young title character demonstrates an unnerving gift of clairvoyance: "He told Sarah Phillips...
...host) around her hometown on the upper level of an open-air, double-decker bus where a dorky tour guide gave a running commentary on the sights of the city. As if that wasn't proof enough, I later discovered I was the ultimate tourist when I schlepped through endless souvenir shops searching for the perfect Union Jack pencil case for my sister, boxers for my boyfriend and tie for my dad. Somehow I didn't mind examining every London beer stein and every London magnet in every single store while my friend looked ready to strangle me along with...
Combining Vivendi (1999 revenues: $41.8 billion) and Seagram ($12.3 billion) would bring a fat payoff for Edgar Bronfman Jr. and the entire Bronfman family, which owns nearly 25% of Seagram. Bronfman has had to endure endless Hollywood brickbats since his father tapped him for the top job in 1994. Outsiders ridiculed the Bronfman scion, who writes pop songs under the pseudonym Junior Miles, as a star-struck dilettante when he jettisoned Seagram's lucrative 24.2% stake in DuPont and used the proceeds to buy Universal. It didn't help that DuPont stock promptly doubled, as Seagram's own shares sparkled...
Read her sardonic responses, and Aimee suddenly springs to life, as engaging as a well-written sitcom character. Aimee says putting up with the endless voyeurism is a fair price to pay in exchange for finding an appreciative audience for her writing. "I like to think I'm funny," she says. "Nobody would ever see that in real life. You draw them in with the camera, and then they'll stay and read your stuff." What some people won't do for their...
...subject and will be much smaller, and thus more intimate, than many other classes-especially within the Core Curriculum. Unfortunately, I managed to find a particularly nasty example of a new course. The second two-thirds of the course were poorly organized, the hour-an-a-half lectures seemed endless, and there was no textbook to accompany quantum theory material about which physicist Richard Feynman admitted, "Nobody understands...