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...Angel's Game, Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón's prequel to his mega-best-selling The Shadow of the Wind, a young writer in early 20th century Barcelona finds that he may have sold his talents and his soul to the worst of bidders. Pulpy, melodramatic and compulsively readable, The Angel's Game is the second of a proposed four books set in Barcelona. Ruiz Zafón spoke to TIME about his obsession with storytelling, the e-book revolution and why the media don't care about literature...
...rare to see Argentina's First Family convey political humility. But as President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband (and presidential predecessor) Néstor Kirchner absorbed their startling defeat in Sunday's midterm elections, they both offered unusual hints of contrition. "In a democracy, you win and you lose," said Fernández after her Peronist party's congressional majority had vanished, leaving her to deal with a potentially hostile parliament over the last 2½ years of her term. Kirchner, who resigned as the Peronists' leader after suffering a close but stunning loss...
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...important to you are the critics' reviews of your films? Do you still look at them or care? Jeffrey N. Golub, SEATTLE
...Harvard students, Chanequa N. Campbell '09 and Brittany J. Smith '09, are alleged to have given swipe-card access to the victim and suspects, allowing them to enter the basement of the dormitory. Although Campbell, through her lawyer, has denied the allegations and said she does not know the victim, the two students were barred from graduation in late...