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...best reason to be glad we have Calasso is that he represents an antidote to the most common error on the modern lit-criticism scene: that of dissecting a text until it is nothing more than a series of textual moments made to be deconstructed, rather than a living, breathing emotional experience. In Literature and the Gods, Calasso goes too far in the opposite direction, letting himself get bowled over by the mystical alchemy that happens in good literature, but at least it’s in the opposite direction...
...supporters then lit candles and gathered in a large circle in Tercentenary Theater to provide a safe environment for those willing to share their stories of sexual assault...
...With only 1:16 left, Canadian defenseman Correne Bredin-Dartmouth's lone representative in the tournament-got called for a holding penalty. Mleczko lit the lamp just seven seconds later, sending a puck that deflected off a Canadian defender past St. Pierre...
...they had this last weapon. But McCain had 150,000 weapons of his own: e-mail correspondents who were kept abreast of the bill's progress and told which Senate offices to barrage with calls and e-mails. On Thursday they made sure that 20 Senate office switchboards were lit up all day. McCain's Straight Talk America cyberoperation would put out an alert if a member was wandering off the reservation. "Literally, within an hour, we'd have complaints on the Senate floor" from the Senator in question, says strategist Rick Davis. Illinois' Dick Durbin, whose vote...
Since more than one person has told me that In the (K)now is best read on the toilet, I'm assuming that you're all alone while you read this in the confines of your terribly-lit dorm bathroom. Now, close your eyes and think back, think way way back to 1995 when angry girl rock filled the airwaves, CD shelves and music video rotations with feminist venom, unapologetic male-bashing and histrionic yelps. Indeed, it was not so long ago that Alanis Morissette and her badly-dressed disciples ruled the land, deflating bubblegum pop and appropriating "bitch...