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Bynum's dreamy, experimental debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, earned a 2004 National Book Award nomination. In her second book, her prose tacks traditional but sacrifices none of its lilting charm. Ms. Hempel is a seventh-grade English teacher besotted by her students but ambivalent about her profession; Bynum's portrayal makes this humanist appealingly human. It's a pleasure to be in her class...
...attack had gone according to plan, it would have killed or wounded countless U.S. diplomats in the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden within a week of the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Although Wednesday's attack on the U.S. embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a left at least 16 people dead, the bravery and quick reaction of Yemeni security forces foiled what appeared to be a daring attempt to storm the embassy compound and kill everyone inside. One American of Yemeni origins was among the victims of the thwarted attack...
...three finishes, including a win, on Saturday, before following up that performance with a fourth-place showing at the Captain’s Cup on Sunday.Meanwhile, the A-division duo of skipper Powers and sophomore crew Grace Charles had a solid weekend, finishing sixth overall on Saturday and seventh on Sunday. As a team, Harvard placed third at the Man-Labs Trophy and fourth at the Captain’s Cup.Yale won Saturday’s event, with Boston College taking top honors on Sunday.With the women’s top boat of Wareham and senior co-captain Megan Watson...
...candidates will gather briefly at the site of the World Trade Center to mark the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001. Neither man will speak at the site; they will instead bear witness to the tragedy that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., and left thousands of others wounded. It is enough that they would stand side-by-side to mark the anniversary. "We will put aside politics and come together," the two men said in a statement released jointly...
Sittenfeld boldly skips over the politics that lands Charlie Blackwell in the White House. It is "the part that everybody knows," Alice says, picking up the narrative in the seventh year of the Blackwell presidency. It all seems a whirlwind to Alice, in any case, a tornado spinning too fast to be comprehensible--Charlie for President? Charlie as President? Charlie as the ultimate arbiter of war and peace? Indeed, Alice belatedly finds herself facing a moral dilemma: Was it possible that the disaster of Charlie's presidency--the war, the thousands dead--was her fault, just as the long...