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...Kazuo Ishiguro is the undisputed genius of vagueness, threshold states and constantly shifting surfaces. Now he has turned his attention to the short story for the first time. Nocturnes, subtitled "Five Stories of Music and Nightfall," was written, Ishiguro said in a recent interview, as a unified, organic project from beginning to end. It is much like a novel and unlike most short-story collections, which tend to be a gathering of work published elsewhere over a long period. As such, the collection is tight and assured although the unifying themes that Ishiguro signals at the very outset, music...
...lasted mere hours. Now a Hizballah-led political coalition is poised to do well in parliamentary elections on June 7. And even if Hizballah doesn't triumph, it is in de facto control of the Lebanese state, able to arm and train its military wing with impunity, and to project the power of its sponsors - Syria and Iran - into Israel...
...military policy, the U.S. Army has begun regularly releasing statistics on the number of enemy combatants killed in Afghanistan--a figure nearing 2,000 over the past 14 months. The practice of disclosing enemy death tolls was abandoned after the Vietnam War, when they were reportedly inflated to project the illusion of victory. U.S. military officials say releasing casualty tallies will help counter insurgent propaganda...
...Stalking the Wii In a bid to combat Nintendo's Wii--the best-selling game console since 2006--Microsoft and Sony announced motion-based controls of their own at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). Sony's wireless wand emits light tracked by a camera, while Microsoft's Project Natal eliminates the controller entirely, using a 3-D system to detect a player's body movements. Don't rest your thumbs yet: Sony's device won't be available until 2010; Microsoft has yet to set a release date...
...more middle-of-the-road comic, his new show is an even more radical experiment. NBC is arguing that broadcast TV has become too small to support expensive scripted shows three hours a night. Though a nightly variety show is the most ancient kind of TV, the boomer's project may define the medium's future...