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...relentless gratuitousness of 2666 has its own logic and its own power, which builds into something overwhelming that hits you all the harder because you don't see it coming. This is a dangerous book, and you can get lost in it. How can art, Bolaño is asking, a medium of form and meaning, reflect a world that is blessed with neither? That is in fact a cesspool of chance and filth? In Part 2 of 2666 the philosophy professor, whose name is Amalfitano, recreates one of Marcel Duchamp's ready-made artworks: he hangs up a geometry...
...closed one of his four offices and eliminated most his print advertising. In order to survive, Huebner says many of remaining brokers have changed what they do. They have gotten out of the residential sales businesses, and into commercial real estate or helping people find rentals. "It's harder to make a sale than it was," says Huebner. "But people have to live somewhere...
...Stephanie H. Kenen. Course development in the Societies of the World category has been slow: of the seven classes approved so far, only one is not a refitted course for the new curriculum. But Harris said that because the Societies of the World category is new, it makes it harder for professors to design courses for the category right away. Kenen said that David M. Cutler, an economist and a former divisional dean of the social sciences, organized several lunches with faculty last year in order to urge them to create new Gen Ed classes that fit in the Societies...
...some point in the late 1990s, hip-hop became weighed down by bling and, taking its cue from the diamonds that adorned the necks of most of its artists, grew harder and more polished. Electronic sounds further stretched the genre, but an orthodox mainstream was born and experimentation fell by the wayside. Eminem made a movie and then disappeared, Kanye West and Estelle bounced irresistibly delicious sounds back and forth from both sides of the Atlantic, but nothing really changed—nothing was really revolutionized. Hip-hop continued to sit quite comfortably in its own little groove. The Knux?...
...making mistakes.") to getting involved in economic policy during the lame duck session, Obama's answer time and again was: "We only have one president at a time." Clearly, at least until he is that president (and likely even after that), journalists will have to think harder of ways to pry new information from...