Word: jacobses
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Harvey Jacobs' American Goliath (St. Martin's; 346 pages; $24.95) celebrates the long and glorious tradition of deception with an inspired novel based on the 1869 Cardiff Giant hoax.
That this profane creation could have been mistaken for a calcified Superman with a biblical pedigree evokes patronizing chuckles today. But Jacobs, an undersung writer (Beautiful Soup, The Egg of the Glak and Other Stories), treats bunkum and hypocrisy as endearingly ambivalent national traits. Unsurprisingly, his all-time champion of...
Hailei Ge, a Computer Science student from Beijing in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, died at 7:45 p.m. last night at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said Patty Jacobs, director of media relations.
Louis C. Jacobs, a noted dinosaur expert at Southern Methodist University, said the Utah fossil discoveries are "hugely" important because they help give a picture of the world during an unknown period.
While three of baseball's division series slumbered to their conclusions this weekend, the real drama was played out in Cleveland, this time in a game starring Sandy Alomar as The Natural. Down to their last four outs, Indians fans were preparing their "wait until next year" speeches when the...