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...Marler might say, that is the way things happened. As he announces at the outset, he has avoided "fictionalizing events or characters in any way." Maybe the conclusion that must be drawn, then, is that sincerity is not the highest value in art after all. Hearing about someone's ordinary life can be entertaining and diverting, but rarely dramatic, engaging, or absorbing...
...outset of the novel, Bennett is hired by Leominster College, ostensibly to teach physics but also to try to ferret out the insights of the genius physicist Scalopino, who has published nothing and yet, according to rumor, keeps scores of brilliant results in files full of near undecipherable notes...
...year-old baby sitter. Following a widely publicized investigation, in which the evidence included phone messages left by Grammer on the girl's voice-mail system, a New Jersey grand jury decided not to charge him with sex abuse. Grammer declared in a statement, "I have said from the outset that there was no basis for the allegations made against...
...league record would be cause for excitement and certainly satisfaction for many schools. But this has been a difficult, disappointing year for the Crimson by any account. A pre-season pick to finish in the top five in the country, Harvard has struggled from the outset, succumbing to several league doormats...
...perfect war led by the perfect generals...turns out to be not quite what it seemed to be at the outset," said Trainor. "Our book is not just a history, we tried to get the ground truth of the Gulf War in order to determine what it says about American politics...