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...don’t think one can avoid the influences of one??s place of birth,” says Samina Quraeshi.“You are raised [in a certain] way and the colors and the textures and all of the sensory experience you are surrounded by are etched in your brain...
...It’s highly unusual that one of the presidential candidates does not come from the executive board,” Flores said. “[Furthermore] there’s no women, there’s two social club candidates [Bowman and Zhang], no one??s really an insider except [Hysen], and there are two first semester UC candidates. It should be a fascinating election...
...successful middle-aged Turkish businessman, walks into a boutique to buy a handbag for his fiancée and is immediately smitten with an 18-year-old shopgirl named Füsun, who happens to be a distant relative of his. Their affair—initially, a casual one??takes on a special gravity; despite its European affectations, 1970s Istanbul remains deeply wary of women who have sex before marriage. The two eventually do consummate their relationship, however, and the first few chapters of the book are devoted to surprisingly graphic descriptions of the body and the ecstasy...
...finance the absurd scripts of his ex-lover’s chubby screenwriter husband (a mere excuse to visit their apartment). Society dismisses Kemal as foolish or eccentric, but to him it doesn’t matter: for love is “something to which one devote[s] one??s entire being at the risk of everything.” Throughout the stunningly long period over which his heartbreak unfolds—2,864 days, or nearly eight years—he obsessively collects thousands of objects that Füsun has touched, or that remind...
...need to take it in context,” said school committee member Marc C. McGovern. “They are one measure—an important one??but they don’t tell the whole story...