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...Gist: In Marley & Me, John Grogan's hit bestseller about the titular golden Lab who taught him lessons about patience, loyalty, and commitment, the author essentially rewrote Old Yeller. Not so much in its plot or content, but rather in effect-it was a dog book that brought many a grown man to sad, secret tears. (Guys, better get those kleenex out again for this winter's film adaptation.) With The Longest Trip Home, Grogan offers another memoir, this one of his non-dog life: he recalls his childhood in suburban Detroit, growing up in a devout Catholic family...
...have studied medicine in Paris, has been pressed, with much grumbling, into service as a coroner. Politics rudely intrudes when a body arrives in his morgue booby-trapped with a live grenade. Dr. Siri soon finds himself untangling a mystery involving Hmong insurgents, a possible demonic possession, and a plot by a female terrorist known as the Lizard, who plays Moriarty to his Holmes. As in the previous Dr. Siri books, the plot is mostly a pretext for a leisurely stroll through Laos' history and profoundly rooted religious traditions, and it's this that gives Pogo Stick a certain charm...
...Harvard’s Director of Community Relations Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 said that the University will continue to refine the plan for Charlesview on its current plot, allowing Boston’s review process to address resident concerns...
...Rahmani denies that he withholds supplies, and told TIME he is waiting for fuel to come from Kabul. He also says that he has not paid any bribes for his own post, and calls Khodaydad's charge that he put a hit out on the district police chief "a plot against...
...sang with far more urgency than he acted. His movement and expression were often as wooden as the butt of his hunting rifle, which, for a character whose inner psychological turmoil is at the center of the opera, was not welcome. In the opera’s plot, Max is a down-on-his-luck hunter who must win a shooting contest to gain his beloved Agathe’s hand in marriage. Having performed disastrously in a lead-up competition, he turns to a shadowy pact with the Devil to make sure he shoots surely...