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Sleep is just a waste of time. Let’s be honest. Hitting the sack for eight hours every night is just not an option this time of year. Unfortunately, the strongest stuff most students take to keep awake is caffeine, which makes you both wired and addicted, and has recently found to be a potent insecticide. (A report in Nature this summer showed that slugs placed in caffeine-sprayed soil soon die in a fit of “uncoordinated writhing...
Along the way, Tartt tells the parallel story of the Ratliff family (Danny proves to be a pitiable sad sack, terrorized by his elder brother). The connections between the Ratliffs and Harriet's family make a kind of class history of the white South from Jefferson Davis to Lynyrd Skynyrd. If Tartt's tone softens a bit at the end, her unsentimental clarity avoids the feel-good coming-of-age-tale pitfalls that irritate Harriet. "She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up," Tartt writes, "as what 'growing up' entailed (in life...
...displaying a Vogue business card, and leaving with piles of loot to be used in shoots. It was the ultimate in retail vindication: Minutes after entering a designer store only to be greeted with death stares from Ivana Trump look-alike assistants, I would saunter out with a huge sack of shoes equivalent in value to a semester of tuition at Harvard (this is only a slight exaggeration). For these brief moments, I lived the life of a society heiress, except without the Tiffany’s store credit, but with eight-hour workdays. Another catch in this appealing little...
...touchdown grabs and 227 all-purpose yards. Senior quarterback and captain Rose directed the offense, throwing for 240 yards with three touchdowns and one interception before bowing out with a hand injury late in the third quarter. Junior linebacker Dante Balestracci led the defense with nine tackles, a sack, and a forced fumble on his way to earning Ivy Defensive Player of the Week honors...
...times are no better for the Sopranos than for the rest of us. The Mob's economy is in a pinch, despite Tony's CEO-style fulminations that the Cosa Nostra is supposed to be "recession-proof since time immemorial!" New York City Mafia underboss Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola) is undermining Tony with his own people, and the feds have planted a mole in the heart of the Soprano family. Tony is back in therapy, but so are his sister Janice (Aida Turturro) and daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler). Most perplexing for Tony, his marriage may be unraveling; Carmela...