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Petterson, a Norwegian writer, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award last year for his novel Out Stealing Horses, as well as an even more elusive prize for a work in translation: critical acclaim in the U.S. The novel's success was all the more surprising given the quiet nature of Petterson's storytelling. His characters live mostly inside their heads; outside, they can be found in small villages in Scandinavia, drinking, chopping wood, fighting, reading, remembering. It's hardly the stuff of flashy, cosmopolitan fiction-without-borders...
...graveyard of failed missions. Currently, six ships--five American and one European--are at work on Mars, and a handful of others sleep peacefully on the surface or orbit silently above, their missions completed and their systems exhausted. While a lot of the work the spacecraft do is the quiet business of spelunking and air-sampling that thrills mostly space geeks, in recent weeks the news from Mars has been compelling...
...with terrorists,” and in the blind and righteous fury of supporters at campaign rallies: “Kill him!”These are not appeals to sense, but to fear. And to them, the Obama campaign’s strategy of keeping the race issue quiet is, in many ways, exactly wrong. True, he’s leading in all polls; true, enough middle-class whites will swing his way. Some will do it because they prefer his populist economic policies. Others will shrug, close their eyes, and vote the party line.Pundits will credit his inevitable...
During his concert, Campbell was all smiles. “He’s sort of quiet and respectful, but there’s a real creativity and exuberance in his playing,” NEC Chair of Jazz Studies Ken Schaphorst says. “Another part of his personality comes out.” Campbell also feeds off the energy of his fellow musicians. “He takes everyone’s styles and uses them,” attendee Christopher M. Krogslund ’09 says...
While the “party suites” in Harvard Houses undoubtedly give the underwhelming social scene a boost every weekend (and often weekdays), these party havens come with casualties: for the students living next door to the raving rooms, peace and quiet can be hard to come...