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...Remarkably, many of these simple stories would just as easily belong in an adult collection. One of the biggest names in children's literature, Maurice Sendak, contributes "Cereal Baby Keller," which begins, "Josh and Irene Keller, after horrendous effort produced, finally, a baby Keller." After this nod to reproduction issues the story turns into a new-parent anxiety metaphor. But for kids it's about a big baby who eats everything, including his folks...
Crothers’ dedication has not gone unnoticed by Mazzoleni. The Harvard coach has given Crothers the starting nod over some very capable competition in freshman Dov Grumet-Morris...
...cast aside doubts over its fighting ability and seizes Mazar-i-Sharif before the onset of winter impedes the prospects for ground warfare, the U.S. will have to do more of the heavy lifting itself in the campaign to defeat the Taliban. With Washington having been given the nod by Moscow, U.S. personnel are currently scouting airfields in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, not only as logistical bases for long-term resupply efforts in an expanded Northern Alliance-controlled slice of northern Afghanistan, but also as potential staging areas for a more substantial commitment of U.S. ground troops. The search...
...novelist, a phone call from OPRAH WINFREY is like a house call from the prize patrol: the big check has arrived. The author appears on Oprah's show, and sales go through the roof. But not long after JONATHAN FRANZEN's literary best seller The Corrections got the nod, the writer got cold feet: "She's picked some good books, but she's picked enough schmaltzy, one-dimensional ones that I cringe," he said. Oprah's justice was swift. She did not withdraw the seal of approval, but she did the next worst thing: "Jonathan Franzen will...
...Verdi. Both demonstrated the utmost in fluidity and lyricism—in Kissin’s hands, the hideously difficult becomes the sublimely simple, even if the material is third-rate fluff. Scriabin’s D-sharp minor Étude (Op. 8, #12) was next (a nod to Horowitz), followed by an arrangement of waltzes from Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus—again, breathtakingly impressive. Still, I can’t help but wonder how much more enjoyable it would have been had Kissin challenged us a little more musically. The warhorses and bon-bon encores...