Word: grasping
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...EAGLE: Move over, John Grisham. Kirkus gives the top prize to Scott Turow, author of "Reversible Errors" (Farrar, Straus; November 1), bestowing a starred review. "A final appeal from Death Row reopens a decade-old murder case as the world's preeminent legal novelist proves once again why his grasp of the moral dimensions sets the gold standard for the genre....No car chases, explosions, threats against the detective, movie-star locations, or gourmet meals; just a deeply satisfying novel about deeply human people who just happen to be victims, schemers, counselors-at-law, or all three at once." (First...
...Forbidden City to kitschy Cultural Revolution clocks. The portraits serve as frequent reminders that, with each succeeding generation of cadres, the throw weight of Beijing has diminished. Market liberalization introduced by Mao's successor, Deng Xiaoping, started the decay by freeing millions of entrepreneurs from the state's grasp. Today, Jiang, only the third leader in the history of the People's Republic, has neither the adulation of the masses nor the authority of his predecessors. It is the thousands of mayors, governors, Communist Party chiefs and other functionaries from China's 32 provinces who have become the nation...
...those who make the trip - 16,000 a year on average - don't leave disappointed, even if they fail to grasp what Bycko says are "obvious" similarities between Warhol's prints and local eastern Orthodox church icons, or don't connect Warhol's famously reclusive personality with the ways of the suspicious natives. On display are more than 120 original prints and drawings, some of them - Cow, Shoes, Flowers, Red Lenin, Hammer and Sickle and Absolut Vodka - chosen to suit uncomplicated local tastes, Bycko says. There are also such Warhol personal effects as a snakeskin jacket, green-tinted sunglasses...
...impact of gifted programs, it is crucial to group gifted students together for the sake of their social maturation. In their socially and academically formative years, gifted kids should be surrounded with those who memorize Shakespeare for fun, solve complex quadratic equations in their heads, and who yet cannot grasp some simple social conventions of propriety. Together, these children learn how to properly interact with other members of their social group and become more comfortable with themselves as individuals. It is important for gifted kids to be surrounded with other talented students because only then can they think of themselves...
...concerned editor sends him on the reporting junket of a lifetime, traveling to mythical lairs?Babylon, Tibet, Shangri-la and more?to study man's dreams instead of man's misery. Man has forever sought power, immortality and peace, the journalist discovers, and they will forever elude his grasp...