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...victim of white officials, white media and unpatriotic white South Africans. And yet one miracle of Semenya's story is that in a nation of little tolerance and where apartheid crushed self-respect, Semenya's achievements have brought her both. Because in Berlin, as she broke from the pack and the crowd could measure her difference in astonishing distance, the other became not weird but wonderful...
...fool me with that world-weary, seen-it-all manner of his. So he’d been through a war. So he’d been on TV a couple times. So his dick was a foot long. God almighty! I’m surrounded by a pack of rabid dogs!” But what makes the novel so exciting in hindsight is its overture—the first and perhaps the only significant one—to “2666.” That overture is its brush with the stuff of the latter?...
...true”). Clocking in at just over two and a half minutes, the tune captures Yo La Tengo at their best and briefest.This is not to say they’ve forgotten how to write longer jams, although in a mysterious lapse in judgment they pack the three longest songs in a row at the album’s end. These songs comprise a prodigious 37 minutes (longer than a few of their early LPs), and only one of them seems essential. “The Fireside” drones and wanders but never ignites; closing number...
...first in the U.S. to mandate a four-day workweek for most state employees, closing offices on Fridays in an effort to reduce energy costs. The move is different from a furlough in that salaries were not cut; nor was the total amount of time employees work. They pack in 40 hours by starting earlier and staying later four days a week. But on that fifth (glorious) day, they don't have to commute, and their offices don't need to be heated, cooled...
...Marc Jacobson, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Task Force on Obesity, says the best thing to do is to model healthy eating and exercise habits yourself; research shows it's more effective than just talking about losing weight. So pack a healthy, satisfying lunch, but "focus more on making your home as healthy as you can," he says...