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Some seniors mourn the loss of athletic Kirkland's team spirit. "There is a general spirit among the seniors in the house that since the last of old Kirkland went out, things have changed," Scott R. Arsenault '93 says...
...sense of closure in its last piece, "Soirees de Paris." Barthes concludes with the sad understanding that he will give up his pursuit of boys, to be left only with the consolation of hustlers. Miller reads "Soirees" as an exercise in nursing a broken heart, a prolonging of mourning for the reassurance of knowing the heart can still feel enough to mourn. The analogy to the epidemic that Barthes died too soon to know is obvious but lopsided--the constant mourning that AIDS has brought to gay male communities would seem to overflow the edges of a broken heart. This...
While Peck suggests that stories which mourn death can also sustain life, what makes this novel truly heartbreaking is his understanding of the limits of stories--the stubborn persistence of real life. Peck possess the double ability to spin beautiful fictions and then expose their falsity. As John watches the emaciated Martin die. Peck offers a delicate, gruesome image: "The way his shoulders shook and the way his bones poked at his wet skin made me think of old rice-paper lanterns shaking in the wind, starting to melt in the rain...
...what some French sociologists call La Generation MacDo, saw a commercial for "McCopters," she dragged her mother to the McDonald's across from the Austerlitz train station. Until 1989, the spot was occupied by a vast cafe, the Arc-en-Ciel. But Marie Biondi, Shannon's mother, does not mourn the disappearance of the bistro. "We feel safe here," she says. "We avoid the neighborhood drunk, and the toilets are clean." Nearby, medical student Christophe Icard, 21, converses with a companion over chocolate ice cream. Cafes are "expensive and old-fashioned," he says...
...against hundreds of wolves in an effort to boost already abundant populations of caribou and moose. And all to impress hunters and tourists. Never mind that when herds swell, starvation is often close by. Even as Alaska prepares to wage its wolf war, conservationists in the Lower 48 mourn the absence of wolves and seek to reintroduce them...