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...Death of a Salesman" is the story of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman who has reached the end of his career. The play's success is in the slow, torturous way that Willy grapples with his fate--he cannot bring himself to face the reality of the choices he has made. For many literary critics, the brilliance of "Death of a Salesman" was that this simple message conveyed the tragedy of the everyman, and in such a way that an audience of any kind could empathize. Joel Henning of the Wall Street Journal said that his father, a businessperson, never...
...fate of the building ultimately rests in Fleet's hands. According to Gibbs, the problem is "currently being analyzed...
...cutup during the first 20 years of a checkered career, Jeb was the good son who worked hard and played by the rules. As his dad advised, Jeb made his fortune before making a bid for office, and meanwhile slowly climbed the party ladder in South Florida. But fate is fickle, and W.'s career, which really didn't begin until he gave up drinking in his 40s, took off suddenly when he got control of the Texas Rangers. Party elders started urging him to run for Governor. Jeb had already decided to run again, having made his millions (although...
...that Gao Xingjian had become the first Chinese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy singled out for particular praise his "great novel" Soul Mountain, calling it "one of those singular literary creations that seem impossible to compare with anything but themselves." Proving that fate sometimes smiles on publishers, an English rendition of Soul Mountain (HarperCollins; 510 pages; $27) was in the works well before the Nobel hullabaloo made its author an international celebrity, and has now arrived with the unexpected imprimatur of the Swedish Academy...
...independent judiciary. The most striking thing about the reaction the general's arrest has been how little protest it has provoked - small groups of well-groomed women have rallied to the general's cause, to be sure, but the majority of Chileans appear somewhat indifferent to the fate of the man who imagined himself to be Chile's savior...