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...smoulder in the slightest. This dampening of emotion is surely deliberate, and it makes Half a Life at once more sublime and less enjoyable than Naipaul’s previous works, fiction and nonfiction. Nevertheless, in the category of writers who have examined the colonial condition as a worldwide phenomenon, Naipaul stands almost alone for his quality and seriousness. Next year the Swedish Academy’s honoree will have a tough act to follow, and the literary world may have to break out its umbrellas yet again...
...aurora borealis, a.k.a. the Northern Lights, appeared in skies across the country Monday night, freaking out people who thought the natural display was somehow terrorist related. The beautiful phenomenon is expected to last until tonight, although it has weakened in intensity in the time it has lasted...
...Antiterrorist officials say the typical inducements to sing don?t work with fundamentalists well-versed in their rights under Western legal systems. "With the Mafia, it was usually enough to offer them a lighter sentence or a bit of money," says an Italian judge. "This is a different phenomenon. But it?s still early. We have to give it time. You have to isolate them from their network." Others remain less optimistic. "Unfortunately, I?ve never seen a turncoat among Islamist militants," says an experienced European interrogator. "A change of heart could be transitory. People we?ve considered ?defectors? from...
...most governors and mayors terrorism and threat of terrorism are such a new phenomenon,” said Juliette N. Kayyem ’91, the task force’s executive director...
...Film Festival. The brainchild of David Peck, a junior at Brown, the festival has already achieved great esteem due to the participation of such celebrity panelists and guest speakers as writer/director James Toback ’66 (Black & White, Bugsy and Harvard Man), producer Barbara Boyle (Bottle Rocket, Phenomenon and Instinct), actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the possibility of other notable personalities yet to be named. In addition to judging the submissions, these guest panelists will hold question and answer sessions with the participants, an invaluable opportunity for anyone interested...