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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...
...more experienced sailors made the trip to New Haven this weekend, where they finished a respectable ninth in a field of 20 teams at the Harry Anderson Trophy.Racing in the A division, junior captain and skipper Alan Palmer, along with Charles, placed eighth. While the middle-of-the-pack finish might not have been exactly what the pair was hoping for coming into the weekend, their three top-three finishes in three of the first four contests, including a victory in the fourth race of the regatta, show that the duo can compete with New England’s best...
...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...