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...novel, is an idiosyncratic narrative structure and style that the novelist would expand upon and perfect in “The Savage Detectives.” Each narrative point of view takes the tone of a one-sided interview, or a stream-of-consciousness deposition. The men in question fill their winding explanation of the events during that summer in Z leading up to the murder (the novel’s supposed central event that, in actuality, is a sort of narrative telos) with a sort of chaotic abandon more befitting of a soliloquy in a surrealist play...
...other Western expats quit in the first six months of its contract, which meant there had to be constant training of new staff and a dissolution of any semblance of team cohesion. At one point, 18 guards were not at their posts, requiring embassy personnel to be redeployed to fill critical gaps. The State Department said it docked the company $2.4 million for this. The poor English skills of many of the Gurkhas required cross-cultural pantomiming. (Read "A Return Visit to Kabul: Is Time Running...
Fried chicken? Really? People were more flush with money and into the no-carbohydrate zone five years ago; that was when sushi was around. Now we're in a down economy, when people go out they eat to fill up. Even people who have money don't want to spend as much. Restaurateurs want to serve food they can keep below a certain price point. So it's fried chicken served by restaurants that don't normally do fried chicken...
Meara said that there are few restrictions imposed on researchers aided by stimulus funds, but that all individuals who participate in the program must fill out yearly reports with data about their employees and full time workers. All the information in these reports will be made publicly available online at a later date...
...probably already been tossed around your House or club list, but if you haven't noticed, the venerable Gentlemen's Quarterly took it upon itself to provide a "heavily researched, possibly stereotypey, but still accurate guide" to America's 25 Douchiest Colleges. Thank heavens someone finally stepped forward to fill this gaping void in the journalistic landscape...