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...slight accents - those bastards!) Even the possible-rape victim is shrill and self-serving and, well, cynical and joyless. As a result the book hangs on Kyle, and Kyle remains something of a cipher. He's got a kindly divorced father who lives in a small town in Pennsylvania and hunts deer, so we know we're supposed to like him. But mostly he just flip-flops between being angry and being very, very tired. (See the 100 best novels of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Grisham's Charming Novel About Nothing | 1/24/2009 | See Source »

Obama for America Campaign Manager David Plouffe, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, and former Pennsylvania Governor and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge are among those who will serve as fellows at Harvard’s Institute of Politics this spring, the IOP announced Friday...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IOP Names Spring Fellows | 1/24/2009 | See Source »

...Donald Rumsfeld, who had been a White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford, noted that Emanuel has a leg up on some of his predecessors. Unlike many chiefs of staff, Emanuel comes to the job with the experience of having been a power player on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. "You've been here before, so you know the place," Rumsfeld told him. "And you've been on Capitol Hill, which is so important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Enforcer Named Emanuel | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...graduate schools at Yale, Princeton, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Duke, the University of Virginia, the University of Michigan, UCLA, and Dartmouth will be accepting approximately the same number of students that they admitted last year, according to high-level officials at those schools...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ph.D. Admissions Tighter as Applications Rise, Fellowships Stagnate | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...snowstorm accumulating six inches! So that night the Inaugural committee had 3,000 servicemen, 700 trucks, 100 snowplows, even Army flame throwers working all night. When it was time for the parade, anywhere and everywhere you looked there were at least six inches of snow, but on Pennsylvania Avenue, it was clear as a bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inaugural Parade Announcer | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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