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...marrying her, moving to Connecticut and becoming a regular suburban dad. But Bret brings his demons with him, both figuratively--he can't kick the sauce and he's haunted by his late alcoholic, rageoholic father--and literally: the Connecticut McMansion is assailed by supernatural bogeys, including a real-world incarnation of Patrick Bateman, the titular American Psycho. If the pace flags in places, there are the bones of a great book here: Stephen King--style horror imbued with Ellis' trademark narcotized despair...
Fortescue’s desserts have heretofore appeared only in Diagon Alley, a London locale that offers more enticing—if fictional—retail alternatives to the Square’s pedestrian Gap and CVS. It will finally be conjured into real-world cones, though, thanks to Toscanini’s (where else?)—part of a Square-wide effort to help bring Hogwarts to Harvard...
Meanwhile, her awareness of real-world politics and her sense that the court shouldn't diverge too sharply from popular opinion were especially apparent in O'Connor's death-penalty votes. In 1989 she wrote the majority opinion allowing capital punishment of the mentally retarded, saying a "national consensus" that the practice was wrong had not yet formed. But by 2002 she was convinced things had changed and voted with the majority to end it. It was just the kind of switch that made the court's more doctrinaire conservatives nuts: "Seldom has an opinion of this court rested...
...unlike its counterparts at most other colleges in its emphasis on readings and lectures about real-world issues and policymaking—going “beyond straight teaching of economics,” says Keith D. Gamble ’03, an outgoing...
...unlike its counterparts at most other colleges in its emphasis on readings and lectures about real-world issues and policymaking—going “beyond straight teaching of economics,” says Keith D. Gamble ’03, an outgoing...