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...winner, writes wild, slangy, funny prose laced with Dominican Spanish and Star Trek references. His determination to entertain is almost vaudevillian. Lahiri's stories are grave and quiet and slow, in the 19th century manner. They don't bribe you with humor or plot twists or flashy language; they extract a steep up-front investment of time from the reader before they return their hard, dense nuggets of truth. It's difficult to quote from her stories: they refuse to sum themselves up with a neat final epiphany, and Lahiri doesn't write one-liners. "I approach writing stories...
...faint hearts. Artyom Tarasov, one of Russia's first post-communist millionaires, recalled how quickly business disputes could turn into something much nastier when he described an incident from 1992 at the Club Volodya Cemago in Moscow. "A number of gangsters turned up that day with a clear mission: extract several million dollars from me or, failing that, kidnap me," he said. A veritable army then emerged from both sides - 30 to 40 men. "Given that all were armed to the teeth, it was only a matter of minutes before they started shooting," continued Tarasov, "It was just like...
...same time you have to be respectful of what the composer has already provided for you,” Schreier says. “So I try to be creative, but at the same time work within the confines of this music that I’m trying to extract.” One thing that Schreier will not do is choreograph her own dances. “I prefer to give direction to other dancers and see where they go with it,” she says. Schreier feels that, in choreographing, “There?...
Clardy, who offered the course last fall, said that his students will continue to extract DNA from strawberries in section. He said he plans to incorporate software into the course so that students can examine molecules in section and on their personal laptops...
...extract themselves from perpetual...