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...duet for two voices. One belongs to Jonathan Safran Foer (or his fictional alter ego of the same name), who relates the history of Trachimbrod, the East European village where his ancestors lived. Trachimbrod is a lyrical, fairy-tale creation, a Yiddish idyll of the Fiddler on the Roof variety, inhabited by randy, gossipy villagers like Bitzl Bitzl the gefilte-fish monger, and the melancholy maiden Brod, the narrator's great-to-the-fifth grandmother, who precociously enumerates 613 varieties of sadness by the time she's 12 years...
...just about every category of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual persuasion, as well as a few who have yet to be persuaded. I felt continually grateful to be at a supportive institution rather than the university at which one senior professor made his advisees tar his roof, or the one at which an underemployed faculty member had to moonlight as a janitor. The academic career path may be a labor of love, but as many of you are discovering in your romantic lives, there’s a fine line between love and utter humiliation...
...Immediately after, another flash of light," Sergeant Ron Drori told TIME. "I understood right away it was a bomb." It wasn't a suicide attack, as early reports suggested, but a bomb thrown from a balcony. When the device detonated just feet from the soldiers, Palestinians on the roof opposite opened up with automatic weapons. "It was like a curtain of fire," said Drori. "We couldn't see anything, and all we could hear was the sound of bullets flying and hitting the walls. I started to hear the crying of people who were injured...
Yurts were invented thousands of years ago by Mongolian nomads, and the basic structural elements haven't changed much since then. A yurt has a circular lattice wall topped by a round roof that comes to an adorable little point. The simple design belies its many virtues: yurts are tough as a yak, easy to build and cheap to heat. They're also eco-friendly: there's not much in them besides wood and cloth, and they sit lightly on the ground, no foundation required, so their impact on the environment is minimal...
...bowling venue called “The Alley,” located on a small side street where he used to drink in high school. We also pass a Dunkin’ Donuts, where Cappy and his friends used to clandestinely climb onto the roof for a little rooftop boozing. But the times, they are a-changin’: Cappy says the last time he tried to visit the roof he was chased away by a homeless...