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...first edition in English, the non-profit Dalkey Archive Press gives this loud and incorrigible work by Mexico’s most famous novelist a much-deserved rebirth in American bookstores. In the nine months preceding his birth on Oct. 12, 1992 (the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’ arrival), Christopher reconstructs the web of romances and hatreds, schemes and coincidences that caused his conception and will shape his destiny. He begins, naturally, with his parents, but their tumultuous relationship and checkered pasts necessitate layer upon layer of plot that eventually include everyone from an anarchistic hippie-rock band...
...people the U.S. hoped, maybe expected, would overthrow Saddam Hussein. But the political discontent I saw then seems to have dissipated. Now, after enduring rigorous economic sanctions that have stripped away their wealth, the educated merchant class has settled into numb resignation. The dinar has been devalued to one five-hundredth of its previous value: a government official who earned a yearly salary of $50,000 now gets $100. Gone too is the zest for life, the unpretentious way with visitors, the jocularity...
...four-day auction brought in more than $800,000. The FSLIC, which currently holds $9.6 billion in assets seized from failed thrifts, has raised more than $300 million this year by selling off their property. That comes to roughly one five-hundredth of what the S & L bailout will cost U.S. taxpayers in the next ten years...
...days old and his liver so far had suffered relatively little damage. As Suruga explained, after three months the backed-up bile is likely to cause irremediable cirrhosis of the liver. Another factor was most unfavorable: the bile ducts in the liver were the tiniest imaginable-averaging only one five-hundredth of an inch in diameter. Suruga is not hopeful unless they are twice that size, but he nevertheless decided to make the attempt...
...evening I walk into a room where there is a poetry reading. I don't want to be rude so I stay. A med student who looks like Dr. Kildare reads a poem entitled "Ode to Mickey Mantle's Five-hundredth...