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...Palace of Dreams, Ismail Kadare's most recent work to be published in English, exemplifies these thoughtful, sometimes poetic, intellectual allegories for a life in a totalitarian state. Despite the occasional awkward or forced speculation on the alienation and mayhem caused by cruel, inept bureaucracy, the novel generally succeeds in creating an interesting and often engrossing tale...
John F. Mahoney, 21, of Malden, will be charged with assault and battery today in Cambridge Third District Court in connection with the attack on the Harvard senior, according to the police report. Charges against Mahoney may be upgraded to include assault and battery with intent to commit mayhem (violently inflicting a bodily injury), police said...
...happened in such a hurry and [around such]mayhem," the senior said. "I've never seenanything like it. I was pretty shocked...
...games like these bad for kids? There are no definitive scientific studies, in part because it is difficult to sort out the effects of the violent acts in video games from those of the mayhem seen in movies, TV shows and city streets. According to Parker V. Page, president of the Children's Television Resource and Education Center in San Francisco, preliminary research suggests that such games make children "more aggressive or more tolerant of aggression." That jibes with the experience of parents who will drag their kids away from a kick-boxing video game only to watch them start...
...closer to their aging parents. Everyone on the show is wired, from a TV-mesmerized son ("Joan Lunden's hair! What is she thinking?") to a splenetic, cigar-smoking grandfather ("I don't get it. You have your third heart attack, and everybody panics"). In the midst of this mayhem, Reed and Scolari keep their cool wits about them and help deliver the season's funniest half-hour...