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...California on some hilltops you can see clear to New York. I asked an old Mexican woman with a shopping cart where the water was. She said Superior. I thought that meant better: better than home, yes, I said. Really it was the name of the street to the sea. Sitting on a beach in Summerland, California, I thought about seasons, remembering, oceans, glory...
Exposing this entirely legal labyrinth of ownership took years of interagency pick-and-ax work. In the end it demonstrated how nefarious activity - even as high profile as this - can go on for years, right under authorities' noses. It's also meant that tenants of the prestigious Manhattan property have been paying millions in rent to Tehran every year - $4.5 million in 2007 alone. Last November, more than 30 years after the Islamic revolution, U.S. officials moved to take over all of Alavi's U.S. properties and bank accounts, spread over five states...
...half segues into Philip’s quasi-sexual attempts to will himself out of existence—for the “process of dying by auto-dissolution afforded the greatest ecstasy known to man.” It’s not clear how the parts were meant to be linked, though early on Flora does refer to the “mad neurologist’s testament” her husband has been laboring over for years. Nabokov’s writing process as glimpsed here seems to have involved piling together neat phrases...
...really can’t say I understand [their sacrifice] because I don’t think I ever could. I’m not that brave to go without that connection for that long, but they trust that these are the people that they are meant to be with, so they’ll do anything,” says Seyfried...
Although Caputo emphasized the similarity between the competitors, the reality for a depleted Crimson roster meant that a number of grapplers moved out of their weight class, leading to mismatches up and down the lineup. In addition to forfeiting the heavyweight match, Harvard trotted out rookies Chad Eason (125 lbs.) and Spencer Friedman (141) for the 133-lb. and 149-lb. bouts, as well as junior Fermin Mendez (133) for the 141. All three suffered falls in an 18-point swing that gave the Knights a commanding lead...