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...admits to holes in her memory--"that mysterious dead-head space around the marriage's unraveling"--which leaves the reader impotently grasping at Warren's ghost. Her cadence can sometimes slip into Yoda's rhythms ("fitful, this rest is"). But the overall impression is of a sorrowful narrative poem as humble and funny as it is beautiful. Karr is an "inveterate check grabber," she tells us, out of "the poor girl's need to prove solvency." Perhaps a similar need drives her generosity on the page. Certainly her readers, once again, are the lucky beneficiaries...
...enough that we have the pollution and ghost nets that kill our marine life. I wasn't aware the loss of tuna would set the ocean's ecosystem out of balance. Thanks for the list "What You Can Do." Nature can rebound if given a chance. Donna Snow Olympia, Wash...
...enough that we have the pollution and ghost nets that kill our marine life. I wasn't aware the loss of tuna would set the ocean's ecosystem out of balance. Thanks for the list "What You Can Do." Nature can rebound if given a chance. Donna Snow, OLYMPIA, WASH...
Members of the House community said that Pertile is renowned for his narrative abilities, and the Masters capitalized upon this in their letter to the House. In the missive, Pertile tells the tale of a deal he made with the ghost of former University President and House namesake Charles W. Eliot: that new House Masters cannot come unless Eliot House wins the Agassiz Cup for House crew. (Pertile told House members that the former Harvard president agreed to help boost the team to victory this year...
...planning and preparing ahead of the rainy season. You cannot say with certainty but [cholera] is not likely to be as ravaging as late year." Nevertheless, she adds that her organization is supplying hygiene kits to 5,000 schools to prevent cholera. Until public sanitation improves, the ghost of cholera will continue to haunt Zimbabwe...