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...mothers' and that the laws need to acknowledge the fact that not every single parent is a woman. In Germany parents have been allowed shared custody of children after a divorce since 1998. If parents wish to have sole custody of a child they have to file a motion to have the situation altered. "One morning, five years ago, I woke up and I knew that I was ready to have a child," says a 38-year-old Dutch career guidance consultant, who requested that her name not be used. She is recalling that moment as she sits...
...memory of the destruction we witnessed Tuesday will consist, in part, of the astonishing newsreel that captured the collision with the southern tower. The millions of Americans who watched those few seconds of videotape played over and over again, in slow motion, will long remember the sight of that dark shadow speeding toward the tower, disappearing as it collided, then emerging as a giant fireball from the opposite side. We will long remember watching the collapse of the World Trade Center and the sight of the giant dust cloud that arose above lower Manhattan—towering buildings reduced...
Sources: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Associated Press; Skyscrapers, by Judith Dupre, Perpetual Motion, by Joe Mysak and Schiffer
Franzen is also the author of two previous novels, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992). Neither one was a huge commercial success, but reviewers were fairly enthusiastic. Comparisons to other authors included Updike, Irving and DeLillo, and some even speculated that Franzen might prove himself to be a successor to the likes of DeLillo and Pynchon. But another reason that people are paying so much attention to Franzen’s newest novel is the 1996 Harper’s piece in which he lamented the state of American fiction and argued that the way to save...
...greatest delights in The Corrections is the experience of coming to know Franzen’s characters, who are all trying, in one way or another, to make those necessary adjustments referred to by the title. His careful rendering of the constant struggle, forward motion and backward glances inherent in every life make the novel a full and rich experience. It is through the Lamberts, in the movements of their carefully portrayed lives, that the novel achieves its richness. Of course, it is more than a matter of who the Lamberts are; it is also in the way we perceive...