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...least the receptionist skills of his sister. Liz Cave was the face of a large Christchurch clothing company in late 1998 when the then president of the governing National Party, John Slater, came visiting on business. Knowing him a little, she summoned the courage to say, "Would you mind if I asked you a personal question?" Not at all, replied Slater. "I have a brother who lives overseas," Cave told him. "He's planning to come back and he may be interested in going into politics. Who could he talk...
...chomping and Jell-O-encased heads. It's so universally silly that Blue Man Groups currently thrive in eight cities, from Las Vegas to Tokyo to Basel, Switzerland. But like many other enterprises that sound funny and turn out to be incredibly earnest (recent Jim Carrey movies spring to mind), the Blue School is a very serious business...
Does immense wealth truly bring peace of mind? Henry Assen, BRUSSELS...
From that suspended moment--with the smell of revelation in the air but the actual article nowhere to be found, as if the author had accidentally left it in his other coat--2666 tacks sideways into the mind of a philosophy professor who teaches in Santa Teresa and may slowly be going insane, and then again into another genre entirely, a hard-boiled yarn about a journalist sent to Santa Teresa from New York City to cover a boxing match. It becomes clear only in the book's fourth section that Bolańo is performing these lateral leaps the better...
...Harvard men’s basketball team’s season opener approaches, there must be one thing that is running through Crimson coach Tommy Amaker’s mind: how his team can win a game on the road. Last season, the Crimson posted a record of 7-6 within the friendly confines of Lavietes Pavilion, but its record on the road was an atrocious 0-15 overall, including 0-7 in conference play. With a record of 3-11 in the Ivy League, the team found itself tied with Columbia for last place in the conference. Harvard...