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...first stories, entitled “Krzysztof,” describes a young cowherd, likely in Poland, who encounters the effects of Nazi occupation. A soldier deduces from Krzysztof’s nervous manner that his identification papers are false, and so the boy must flee through the countryside, seeking refuge in a haystack. The soldier pokes for him with a bayonet...
...would be hard to believe that there is, anywhere, a more passionate advocate for whole-body scanning than Freilich. A 44-year-old dynamo, he defends his work in the manner of a debater with a brilliant speech who's just heard the one-minute bell - a legacy, perhaps, of being booed and heckled at conferences. In a country where adults can have liposuction, facial cosmetic surgery and penis and breast enlargements, he says, health authorities portray whole-body scanning as "some nefarious activity undertaken by grubby business people . . . charlatans who advertise." The facts, Freilich says, are that since August...
After winning by technical fall over No. 7 Jeff Ratliff in the first round, Frayer faced Larkin who had taken his first match in the same manner. Frayer has faced Larkin several times since leaving college, and he noted his lack of aggressiveness in the beginning as a reason for his performance this time around. Larkin scored three one-point takedowns in the first period...
Glaeser “is the heir to Becker in that he has applied economics to explain all manner of human behavior,” Dartmouth Economist Bruce I. Sacerdote wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...this enough to explain Eats' astonishing six-month run atop best-seller lists in Britain and now its ascension onto several in the U.S.? Not quite. What gives the book its oomph is that behind Truss's larky manner, she's a fiery vigilante. If you can't learn the difference between the possessive its and the contraction it's, she writes, "you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave." Just kidding? Don't be too sure. --By Christopher Porterfield