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...Nerdy quiz-show writer impulsively swipes a Chagall during a party at a museum. Why? The answer takes us back to the life of Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present?and how we haunt the future...
...STILL JENNY WITH THE TAPE Thanks to the New York City police department, the world may never have to see JENNIFER LOPEZ and MARC ANTHONY shoving wedding cake into each other's mouths. Officials arrested two men for allegedly trying to extort as much as $1 million for the couple's stolen wedding videos. Police say after Tito Moses and Steven Wortman failed to sell footage of the 2004 nuptials to the press, the men tried to ransom it to officers posing as Anthony's associates. The singer-actors are currently filming a biopic of salsa star Hector Lavoe. Unfortunately...
...customary practice, he was also unusually forthcoming about his administration’s faulty expectations concerning the reconstruction and the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Bush is well aware that his trumpeted “political capital” is losing value faster than a marc in the Weimar Republic, and he is desperate to repaint himself as a more realistic leader. And that is precisely the President’s problem. Rather than maintain his myopic façade of absolute optimism, he should have given this speech months ago, if not over a year...
...than college experts, major publishing houses, and the general public. If the labyrinth of college admissions truly is a puzzle to be solved or a game to be won, then this rhetoric of superiority and altruistic disclosure is an effective one. In the promotion of his 500-page guidebook Marc Zawel, a first-time author and recent graduate of Cornell University, claims that he has consulted “the people who know best.” There is a system to be beat, so why shouldn’t Ivy Leaguers be the ones to reap the benefits...
Every year, high school students are faced with life-altering choices: the Kaplan guide to colleges or the Princeton Review’s version? Or the Barron’s book on the top universities? As if there aren’t already enough choices available, Marc B. Zawel, a recent Cornell graduate, has just published one more: “Untangling the Ivy League...