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...pretty much taken care of that with the title alone. His suspenseful blameography reads like a thriller, even though we already know how things turned out. The Sellout traces the arc of Wall Street's ultimate blowup, from the risk-taking free-for-all that began in the late 1970s through the emergence of complex mortgage-backed securities (which Gasparino labels a "financial cancer") to angry laid-off Lehman Brothers employees packing up their desks a year...
Also, by the late '70s, Carver and his wife had sobered up. When their brains cleared, the marriage dissolved, though not bitterly. You might say they had loved each other to a draw. Carver met and eventually married the poet Tess Gallagher, who would see him through his last, highly productive years before his death in 1988 from lung cancer. These are the years of his crowning achievement, Cathedral, a magnificent story collection with greater emotional range than his earlier published work. Lish edited that book too, but lightly. By then Carver was too big to be revised by anybody...
...Snowball the cockatoo, whose Backstreet Boys dance has been seen nearly 3.3 million times. The former molecular biologist in Dyer, Ind., chooses shows for her bird carefully and has drafted legal agreements to make sure he'll be portrayed in a positive light. But despite appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America, she says viral videos aren't a sure ticket to the good life. "People think my life is glamorous, but I still spend a lot of my time scrubbing birdcages," Schulz says. "There's just a lot of work...
...Crimson would quickly turn things around. Following a late first-half timeout, Harvard closed out the frame strongly, going...
...Clarkson men’s hockey team struck gold Saturday night, mustering two goals late in the third period to come away with a 2-2 tie against Harvard at Bright Hockey Center...