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...blinking. Ellroy investigates the unsolved murder of his mother, trying to make sense of the event that has determined the course of his life. He follows real-life L.A. Sheriff's Department Homicide men through their daily crime-ridden routines. He takes the O.J. Simpson trial as a launch pad for an insightful analysis of L.A. And he spices it all with two alliteratively lunatic novellas set on the tainted side of Hollywood's golden age. All in all, there is nothing particularly new about Crime Wave in Ellroy's career...
...neutral-zone face-off win, Saints junior defenseman Justin Harney released a seemingly harmless long slapshot from two feet behind the Crimson blueline. Junior goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo--who had been rock solid all night--inexplicably reacted late to the blast and it trickled off his right pad into the back of the net, forcing overtime...
...world of Hoope's Prize winners, one thesis surpasses all others with 192 pages of pure writing. There are other texts in the 200 to 300 page range, but diagrams and pictures unfairly pad these theses. Jeremy Kleiner '98 wrote the epic, "Spectacles: Transparency, Representation, and Politics in Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French Revolution, Situationism, and Postmodern Thought." The 15-word title appropriately introduces the 70,000-word document...
...conventional wisdom is that the economic anxiety now gripping much of the world has its roots in the collapse of Thailand's currency, the baht, in July 1997, after investors discovered that Thailand's economic boom was built on a base as solid as a bowl of pad Thai noodles. But the roots actually reach back further, to Black Monday, Oct. 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones industrial average shed 22.6% of its value in a single day. The market, of course, rebounded--and how. But at the time, professional investors thought U.S. stocks were due for a decade...
...career points, which makes her the first Harvard women's skaterto surpass the 200-point mark and the third skaterever at Harvard to pass this mark. With nine moregames left in the regular season, Mleczko has timeto pad her records even more...