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...years. To look after the books "we choose a child who can take care of the manuscripts: someone who's always going to stay here." But kids keep leaving, the world keeps rushing in. Timbuktu's books have survived centuries of isolation. Can they survive their modern-day fame...
...upon a more effective intramural approach? Could open-entry tournaments provide a bigger draw than Straus Cup competition? Or do the summer students simply take advantage of nicer weather and more free time? While the latter must certainly influence these popular competitions, it appears that an appeal to individual fame has won out over community pride...
After the publication of his 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, critics labeled Dave Eggers the voice of a new generation. English majors adored him. The Pulitzer committee nominated him. But Eggers seemed relatively unaffected by his newfound fame. He launched a successful independent publishing house, McSweeney's, started an after-school tutoring center and went on to write a series of books that ranged from the wholly fictional (You Shall Know Our Velocity) to the almost entirely true (What Is the What). Now he has entered new literary territory with a thoroughly researched, completely factual account...
...most striking statement at Michael Jackson's memorial service was not his daughter Paris' tremulous and wrenching goodbye. It was not Berry Gordy's declaring Jackson "the greatest entertainer that ever lived," nor was it the Rev. Al Sharpton's assertion that Jackson's fame made a generation of white kids comfortable with electing a black President. It came before the encomiums and music began, after Motown singer Smokey Robinson took the stage, read testimonials from Diana Ross and Nelson Mandela, walked...
...you’re feeling some finer fare, those options exist too. In left field, the designers of the park incorporated the old Western Metal Supply Co. Building into the stadium, successfully converting it into the Hall of Fame Bar & Grill—a well-done homage to the Padres past...