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...into a movie with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke, but the novel made the short list for the Booker Prize. Swift finally won the Booker in 1996 for Last Orders, an equally powerful tale of four London friends heading for the seaside to spread the ashes of a pub mate. Both Swift's first novel, The Sweet Shop Owner(1980), in which a dying man reflects on his life, and his most recent one until now, The Light of Day(2003), about a disgraced former policeman trying to unravel a crime of passion, embody another of Swift's techniques...
...award. “She has governed very well despite being a Democrat in the very red-state Kansas,” Helgen said. “She also has a lot of potential on the national scene. She could even end up being a vice-presidential running mate. It’s important to have leaders like Sebelius who have the goal of getting things done while at the same time promoting unity...
Like many of our hot seniors, Pia S. Desai ’07 is taken. When asked about her ideal mate, she told FM “I like the one I’ve got.” Hottest thing Desai has done at Harvard? “Transferred back to the Quad from Eliot.” After graduation, Desai will move to New York to begin consulting at McKinsey and Company...
...dining halls and annoy them,” says Sundquist. “Not annoy them...prod them.”“A big stick,” says Ragalie with a vague smile. MAN ON THE GROUNDMuch of what sold Petersen on Sundquist as his running-mate were the vice president’s interactive skills, which make him useful as the pair’s “man on the ground,” according to Petersen. “He is genuine and social, and he’s outgoing and credibly friendly...
...just wants to be left alone. But a couple of scientists at the Wolong Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda keep poking her with long bamboo poles. Hua Mei, who is in heat and (biologically, at least) ready to mate, gets another prod, pushing her in the direction of the neighboring cage where her putative partner, Wu Gong, is watching with placid indifference. Hua Mei reluctantly decides to cooperate and, raising her tail, pads delicately backward toward Wu Gong. The male panda takes one look at her proffered hindquarters and scoots over to the far corner...