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...guilt called into question, and then never quite absolved. The heart of the novel is a legitimate mystery about the frustration of not knowing, of producing (whether necessary or not) an unanswerable question that seeks resolution, and this is what gives “Angelica” its momentum and energy. But that momentum leads only to frustration. At the end, Phillips hands the reader a non-resolution in which a markedly older and less enchanting Angelica openly (and annoyingly) vacillates between the several possible explanations to the mystery. The novel flattens out to become everything it should not have...
...sense he's had an easy time of it. Since their victory, the liberal, pro-Western orange politicians have squandered their once-enormous political momentum by squabbling and infighting. Yuliya Tymoshenko, leader of the byut party and a prime driver behind the orange revolution, initially became Yushchenko's Prime Minister but soon fell out with him amid mutual accusations of frustrating the orange ideals...
Still, Dove's approach could add momentum to a subtle backlash against our deep-seated fear of aging. The clothing retailer Chico's, for example, uses silver-haired models in its ads. W, the fashion-world bible, recently called women who let their tresses go gray "silver foxes." Even if Dove's new products fail in the marketplace, the company's Pro Age campaign sends women a powerful message. "We're seeing a real shift in how people are approaching beauty," says Nancy Etcoff, a Harvard Medical School psychologist, the author of Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty...
...four times. “She did a great job,” Snyder said. “She had to block a lot of plain range saves, the goals they had were just complete breakdowns defensively.” Harvard seems to be picking up momentum heading into the critical part of its season. It will travel to top seeded Hartwick College this weekend. This match will be a good measure of the Crimson’s progress. When the two squads met back on February 24 the Hawks got the best of the Harvard, winning 13-3. Most...
...makings of a new Middle East crisis that could spin dangerously out of control. So, Tehran's decision to free the captives in what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called a "gift to the British people" was a notable victory for Iranian pragmatists over hard-liners - one that could even build momentum within Tehran's power structure and in Western capitals for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran's uranium-enrichment program...