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...Crimson can't nest on its lead. The Falcons wouldn't stand for that. Instead, the home team must pretend that what the scoreboard says at the beginning of tonight's game--Harvard 0, Bowling Green 0--is true...
...securities fraud, perjury and income-tax evasion. "I beg you, let me put the pieces of my life together again," he implored U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel before the sentencing. In deciding on two years, Goettel cited Levine's "extraordinary" cooperation with investigators, which had helped them uncover a "nest of vipers" on Wall Street...
Roth is alienated both from the old country of Eastern Europe that spawned his immigrant parents and from the pleasant diaspora, non-tenemant nest that American Jews have created for themselves. The novel's homebase is this world. Nathan lives in New York City and his brother in South Orange, a suburb of Newark, where the two brothers grew up. Roth has written about these places before. His first great novel, Goodbye, Columbus, takes place in Irvington, New Jersey, a city that borders on Newark. Roth himself grew up in Newark and Irvington...
...slaughtering of villagers before the entire place is torched. During a third battle, Barnes tracks down a woods-wise sergeant, Elias (Willem Dafoe), who had interrupted Barnes' massacre, shoots him and leaves him for dead. On the final patrol Chris flips into heroism or psychosis, wipes out a nest of North Vietnamese and confronts the demon he has almost become. End with a murder -- the last of too bloody many...
...other volumes share the same aim. Florence Cassen Mayers' red ABC (Abrams; $9.95) uses objects in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: D is for a Renoir dancer; N is for an Audubon nest; V is for a Degas violinist. Mayers also offers a matching blue volume (Abrams; $9.95), with works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York: F is for a Jasper Johns flag; N is for a starry night by Van Gogh; G is for an appropriate goat by Pablo Picasso. After all, he was the artist who said it took him a lifetime...