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That's a photograph of a waterfall on the dust jacket of A Ship Made of Paper (Ecco; 352 pages), Scott Spencer's very fine new novel about wild love. But don't imagine it's there because his reckless lovers--one white, one black--find a happy ending at Niagara Falls. This is a book about love as a torrent, a force of nature that overwhelms families, harrows lives and lays waste to whole towns as it thunders through. Love may be our only hope, but when you put this book down--not an easy thing...
...program remained high as the U.S. resumed spy-plane flights near North Korea and announced that the country could be only months away from producing weapons-grade uranium. Amid concerns that Pyongyang was preparing to test a ballistic missile capable of reaching the Japanese mainland, Japan dispatched a reconnaissance ship toward the Korean peninsula and news reports said Tokyo was mulling sanctions if the test went ahead. MEANWHILE IN THAILAND ... Crimes of Passion Thai police have to fight not only criminals, but amorous advances from members of the public inflamed by their tight-fitting uniforms. Police report that emergency telephone...
...already, there are signs of proverbial rats jumping off the ship. Summers has told students for months—and as recently as three days ago in a Kirkland House study break—that they should forget about opposing preregistration and instead focus on making its implementation as palatable as possible. However, he gave much greater attention to criticism of the plan after Tuesday’s meeting. “I think obviously in light of the sentiments expressed, there is going to need to be a lot of consideration in what we do in this whole area...
...Libeskind or bust. Though born in Poland, he's a U.S. citizen. He likes to remind people that at 13 he came to the U.S. with his parents, Holocaust survivors, arriving on a ship that glided past the Statue of Liberty. For much of his architectural career, he was a teacher and theorist, not a builder. Then in the late 1980s, while living in Europe, he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum of Berlin. His complex building, a zinc-clad thunderbolt, operates in a way similar to that of Trade Center design. Its very lines acknowledge a calamity...
...HUDS, please send us more pasta and muffins—and ship some along to the other restriction-free house, Winthrop, too. And please, please, renovate us next...