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...mother sat on a hard chair by the front door with her mouth open. Her pale face paler than I had ever seen it. Her blue eyes staring. My father was driven into motion. He wanted to know details and to comb the cornfield along with the cops. I still thank God for a small detective named Len Fenerman. He assigned two uniforms to take my dad into town and have him point out all the places I'd hung out with my friends. The uniforms kept my dad busy in one mall for the whole first...
...Clearly, these Black-people-harassing-and-insulting events at Harvard Law School during the Spring Term 2002 were set in motion by Randall Kennedy’s ‘Nigger,’” Kilson wrote. “Kennedy crudely embraced the money-grubbing cynicism underlying his decision to use ‘nigger’ as the first word in his book’s title...
...even ice cream gets boring after a while, so Susie turns her attention back to earth. She watches as the shock waves of her death spread slow-motion havoc among her family and friends--her brave but vulnerable dad, her precocious younger sister, her bewildered classmates, the boy she had a crush on. She watches dispassionately as her killer--the fastidious, emotionally damaged Mr. Harvey--carefully disperses her body parts (the hunt for Mr. Harvey gives the book a fierce narrative energy). She watches her mother's slow, grieving slide into adultery with a dry-eyed pity that's heartbreaking...
...Sisyphian struggle up to the Supreme Court. There, of course, he plans to launch a separate campaign against the ceremonial opening words. "When they say 'God save this court,?" he says, "the first word out of my mouth will be 'objection!?" The half-dozen other suits he has in motion - against the family law, against Franklin Graham?s prayer at President Bush's inaugural - should keep him busy in the meantime...
...sides interspersed with pyramidal points—the effect is of waves breaking as they swirl along. Walking past a row of deteriorating former industrial buildings, one comes upon a director’s canvas chair perched on the edge of a window embrasure. It faces the mural-in-motion that is the street outside...