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...Mecca and it isn't Lourdes, but Las Vegas is right up there among the holiest places in the world. In our hearts, we want to take foolish risks, pile food on our plates, dress like proles and shamelessly applaud lion tamers and dancing girls. Our lives are lies until we make the pilgrimage to Vegas and cleanse our souls...
...Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking up among...
...catnip to recent American scholars striving to excavate social issues from art. It may be, as art historian Elizabeth Johns argues in the catalog, that Mount's best-known picture--Farmers Nooning, 1836, with its strongly, even nobly, realized figure of a black laborer taking his siesta on a pile of hay while a boy in a tam-o'-shanter mischievously tickles his ear with a grass stalk--is an allegory of the delusive promises made by abolitionists to slaves. Or it may not; little is known about Mount's racial views. It is clear, though, that the life...
...only imagine how difficult it was for him. Lord knows, it was painful just to watch. I was almost willing to swallow his claim that his answers in the Jones deposition were "legally accurate." I had hoped he wouldn't try to slice his own words into a meaningless pile of razor-thin legalisms, but I told myself his lawyers had probably demanded it. So I set it aside...
...which last week had fallen as much as 10% from its high, could fall further and seriously set back anyone who plows in a pile of money now. But a happy irony of the stock market is that the nuttier it gets, the more you can make by sticking to a regimen of investing a set amount at regular intervals, as most folks do with their 401(k)s or other automatic-investment accounts. That's right: when stock prices fly up and down in dramatic fashion, it's to your advantage. The hard part is gutting out those unnerving...