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After 11 years away, elderly writer (and Roth crypto-alter ego) Nathan Zuckerman returns to Manhattan to leer at young ladies, pursue a literary mystery and get his leaky urethra looked at. This is minor Roth--fencing listlessly with the Reaper, Zuckerman is occasionally gruffly touching but mostly just embarrassing. Let him die already...
...arrive at a school choir competition and find seven girls laid out on the sidewalk. A school van had rolled backward into an underground garage, hitting some girls standing there and injuring others inside the vehicle. Rodrigues and his partner go to work, sidelining the five girls with minor injuries and moving quickly to the pair with possible fractures. The medics pull moldable splints from their backpacks and strap them to the young legs. Then they phone in to request an additional ambulance to back up the one that has already been dispatched...
...doesn’t matter if they dress alike; at least they have the confidence to think they’re different.THREE TIPS TO MASTERING BROWN:1) Smoke Gauloises, as U.S. cigarettes are a bit too healthy, what with the filters and all.2) Have bi-coastal parents who are minor movie stars.3) Buy a fedora.—Staff writer Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...
...first place, the “treaty” is no “constitution,” and this seemingly minor change in nomenclature has done wonders for its prospects of approval. Similarly, EU regulations will not be deemed “laws” in the future, as the Constitution had proposed; they will remain “regulations.” And although Europe’s flag and anthem are easily found on Google, they have been left out of the treaty’s text...
...police began pulling monks from the crowd, targeting the leaders, striking both monks and ordinary people with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded and the riot police charged. The monks and others fought back with sticks and rocks. Many others ran, perhaps four or five of them bleeding from minor head wounds. A car was set alight - by the soldiers, some protesters claimed - and then there was the unmistakable crack of live ammunition: the soldiers were shooting into...