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...exception of “2666,” it begins under the pretense of a conventional plot whose conventions, either totally diminish or, like in Beckett, become so absurd as to be rendered superfluous. The narrative perspective alternates fluidly between its three protagonists: Gaspar Heredia, a Mexican night watchman at a camp ground in the Spanish coastal town of Z; Remo Morán, a Chilean novelist running several businesses in the town; and Enric Rosquelles, a deputy to the mayor of Z. The seemingly tenuous connections between the three men wind progressively tighter around a pair of vagrant...
...There was nothing negative about the work environment, well, aside from me, who’s like why am I here till 8 p.m. at night?” Barth said, adding that being the first person to go home was a real taboo...
...stay until 7 or 9 at night just because I didn’t want to be the first person to leave,” she said...
...when Representative Joe Wilson, a little-known Republican and Army Reserve veteran from South Carolina shouted them at the nation's Commander in Chief on the night of Sept. 9, heads snapped. The House chamber took a collective gasp. Nancy Pelosi, sitting behind Obama, tensed and scowled as if she had just witnessed a crime, her disgust unhidden. (See TIME's photo essay "The Health-Care Debate Turns Angry...
...Africa, in the continent's southernmost country. The tourney kicks off on June 11, with the final on July 11 in Johannesburg. South African winters are generally comfortable, but as this June's Confederations Cup showed, it can get frosty (28°?F, or -2°C) at night. Yet fans could be warmed by livelier games. Former German great Franz Beckenbauer has said, "The players like it. You can only play a fast game like this in the cool or cold weather." See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World...