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...European average of around 250 - according to Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum. Distributed in nine Spanish cities, 20 Minutos - the local title of Schibsted's giveaway - is aimed at the vast majority of Spaniards who don't pay for a daily paper. "If a reader sees something that really interests him and he wants to know more, then he can pay for a paper for more in-depth coverage," insists José Antonio Martínez Soler, director general of 20 Minutos in Spain. The publication now ranks as one of the country's most...
...first sentence reads: “An openly gay undergraduate was allegedly assaulted as he walked on Bow Street Friday night by a man yelling homophobic epithets, in what the victim is calling a hate crime” (my emphasis). By the first full stop, your reader has already been told four times that the student claims, alleges, etc., that he was a victim, but it has not yet been made clear that he was a victim of an assault. I find this highly offensive and see in it a case of homophobia (or skewed reporting, at the very least...
...explains the title as literary license intended to draw attention to the issue—but this mea culpa does not arrive until page 375. The concession’s offhand placement in the denouement of the argument, rather than in the prelude to it, can only confuse the reader compelled by Friedman’s effervescent faith in flatness for the previous...
...work, it feels as though the events that unfold in this book could have happened, even if they never actually did. While this makes for a story where less happens, it gives the work a subtle, textural quality of wordless image and emotion that slows the narrative, forcing the reader to recognize the humanity of the characters...
...perhaps the greatest charm of this book for the average Harvard reader is the sense of familiarity one feels with the character types and locations. As an introspective senior preparing for my final departure from these hallowed halls, the imagery offered by “Guilty” nicely complements my pre-nostalgic state of mind...