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Houellebecq has a gift for sleepy invective; he has contempt for both freedom and authority. But he's like a bad date--brimming with rank charm but few useful judgments. The great nihilist doesn't even know what a closet Victorian he is. Michel sentimentalizes commercial sex, imagining a Western encounter with the Third World that will be calculating and unglamorous but, all in all, gentle. You might say "gently empty." The empty part is a good bet. Somebody remind the author that the gentleness is not to be counted on. --By Richard Lacayo
...voting system, in which the field of at least 19 will run this year, has been operational in Cambridge since 1941. In this system, voters rank the candidates one through nine, rather than simply voting for a single candidate of their choice...
...minimum Academic Index (AI), a measure of eligibility that incorporates SAT scores and GPA or class rank on a 240-point scale, was also raised from 169 to 171, and a requirement was added that the mean AI of recruited athletes be no more than one standard deviation below the mean of all undergraduates at the particular college...
...been tied directly to his ouster, Arafat has little incentive to help his prime minister deliver, and plenty of reason to do what he can to make sure Abbas fails. Moreover, having no role in delivering on the "roadmap," Arafat is free to reinforce the hostility of the Fatah rank-and-file by railing against "plots" to undermine the Palestinian struggle...
...asked, and he paused for a second as if rippling through plausible answers in his mind. "Moscow State University", he answered. Engineering. Other people in the room added details, in Arabic, to Marwan. He was a colonel. He worked in atomic energy. He later admitted to his military rank, but said his expertise in nuclear issues extended only to a couple of Russian theoretical works on nuclear science that he had translated "for pleasure." His government work ended in 1993 when he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years on trumped-up charges. He was out in 4. "Amnesty...