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...remain very surprised when people get upset,” Durang says in a phone interview from his home, laughing. “When I’m writing, I think everyone’s just going to agree with me.”Durang might not intend to provoke, but his taboo subject matter (abortion, homosexuality, child abuse, and the Catholic Church just to name a few topics), coupled with his characteristically absurdist style, rarely fails to spark interest.A SERIOUS SATIRISTDurang was raised in a Catholic home in New Jersey and attended Catholic school before arriving at Harvard...
...experience nearly every member of this community aspires to create the former. This incident is hardly paradigmatic, but is instead indicative of the human flaws that plague even those who seem to have it all.In no way have we enjoyed witnessing the fall of our peer, nor do we intend to lessen the seriousness of her transgression by pointing to the improprieties of others. What she did was wrong; we are, quite simply, disappointed...
...Myong Suk told her mother she was ready to go. Peters had raised $1,500 for the operation, and he and Kim Sang Hun had recruited four people to help. Kim Myong Suk's husband did not intend to leave China but accompanied her to the Laotian border. That was critical; it meant there was no need for safe houses, since the authorities would see just an ordinary couple traveling through the country. On Dec. 9, they boarded a train headed for the city of Kunming in southern China. Several days later, with the help of two fixers hired...
...improve our tradecraft. The President has put out the order that we should increase our humint--our human intelligence and analytical capabilities--over the next five years, and we've got a program well under way to achieve that. So, yeah, I think it's improving, and we intend to improve it more...
...TIME:You've said that you intend to begin a unilateral withdrawal from some settlements in the West Bank, which goes further than even what Sharon said he would do. Why are you pushing to do this...