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Naipaul’s latest novel, the thin, peculiar and effective Half a Life, goes some distance toward showing that the two spheres represented by his travelogues and his fiction are, for Naipaul, hardly separate. Half a Life??s protagonist, Willie Somerset Chandran, undergoes a series of life changes and geographic moves that illuminate how the colonial condition makes its subjects bury their own pasts, both personal and collective, as they adjust themselves to their native, colonial and adoptive homelands...
...into his own universe—a place where card cheats are spoken of with the same respect reserved for the greatest innovators in history and the audience is dazzled not only by a performer’s dexterity but by the simple passion with which he shares his life??s work. In the process, Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, directed by David Mamet and ensconced in the lush Market Theater, registers as the most engaging show in town...
...gratification didn’t exist. Simply wishing for something doesn’t mean you’ll get it, they said; things you want really, really badly, you’ll just have to go and get yourself. Most of us reluctantly accepted this as one of life??s tough facts. Then, of course, we grew up and learned our parents’ dirty secret...
...percent: There I was, one of the lemmings, with my pipet dripping toxic “substances” and the frustrated members of my study group explaining why my problem set answers weren’t only wrong, but also defied the basic principles that define life??again...
National media has never been so fond of the phrase “the value of human life?? as in the wake of the Sept. 11 tragedy. To watch our nation and its leaders unite in mourning the deaths of fellow citizens known to many of us only in their loss is a testament to the innate sense that each human life is sacred. In a dramatic way we have renewed our commitment as a nation to defend innocent human life. These considerations follow a recent national discussion about ethics and public policy: President George W. Bush?...