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...calculated to spare his wife unnecessary grief, instead puts a terrible secret at the center of their life together. "He had wanted to spare her," Edwards writes in The Memory Keeper's Daughter, "to protect her from loss and pain; he had not understood that loss would follow her regardless, as persistent and life-shaping as a stream of water. Nor had he anticipated his own grief, woven with the dark threads of his past...
Forbes, who became a Harvard stage phenom, remains just as stunning more than a decade later. She has that rare species of blessed voice—fluid as quicksilver, full as down, and fine as lace. It carries a richness and sincerity that saturates every note she sings, regardless of the style or sentiment it embodies. It’s no exaggeration to say that, given the right combination of time and place, China Forbes’s voice can change your life...
...better block off 45 minutes to wait in queue.Mama Gideon eventually honours me with her attention. My voice is soft, I sound apologetic. A fellow Sayansi permit-holder, Dr. Jane Goodall, has something to say about this submissive behavior in primates and its desirable effects for social cohesion. Regardless, however, I wonder meekly how soon I might get a permit.But who am I to be asking Mama Gideon questions at all? She assumes the most physical manifestation of suspicion I have seen, and begins a lengthy interrogation. Where I’m from, what I’m studying...
...each of us defines as “mistake.” So was ’68 the best or worst from our parent’s generation? Was it Austerlitz or Waterloo? Should we focus on the dream of better opportunities or the delirium courtesy of LSD? Regardless, it remains forever useful to remember how our parents remembered our grandparents. In the pages of History, as Borges himself says, memorable moments need no memorable quotations. But the struggle for memory inevitably adds them, as a good editor in search of elusive imperishability. Our times might have faster rivers...
...Regardless of what preceded it, there is no disputing that the position was hit by at least two aerial bombs at 7:20 p.m., killing all four observers. UNIFIL insists there were no reports of Hizballah firing Katyusha rockets from the vicinity of observers' position, and that there was no obvious target for the Israelis that was discernible to UNIFIL. The officer contends that the Israelis did not halt their air strikes because "they don't care. They feel they have more important issues on their mind to hit Hizballah. Everything else is secondary." According to a senior U.N. official...