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...Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich people's houses after...
Kabbalah deals “not just in theology, which is the doctrine of the divine, but also in how to transform the conscience to become more aware of God, each other, ourselves and the true nature of reality,” Sendor said...
...says, is oppressing the faithful. "Will you join hands with me to fight? Fight the army that tortures and kills our people? The army that has caused the disappearance of many Muslims?" The crowd cries out in assent, the younger men standing together, holding hands and shouting "Allahuakbar!" (God is great!) again and again...
...range of economic activities. When I go to my dentist's office, I look at the wall behind the receptionist, and it's all these paper files. That's all going to change. Maybe some of that will get digitized, maybe some will go to India or China or God knows where. It's like manufacturing back in the 1980s...
...have to feel for them. If the recent debates over the service records of our presidential candidates are any indication, we can't even agree on stuff that has already happened, let alone on what's next. But thank God some people are willing to put themselves out on a limb, even at the risk of being made fun of by future generations of smart-aleck writers...