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...novel and Jian roll closer to June 4, it becomes clear, almost too clear, that the pent-up anguish of Yang, his student and all of seething China will break open in Beijing, "the sick heart of this country." Jin's description of the massacre is vivid, short and sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays...
...Thirty-some years before, Salter's wife had died and he was left to raise his four-year-old son Bernard, who had begun life as an angel ("You were the most beautiful baby everyone said"). But the father was neglectful, sometimes brutal to the boy; Bernard grew wild, sick. In anger and cunning, Salter took advantage of the new technology and had his son cloned: cloned as a new baby, the precious Bernard before he was scarred by his father's misuse. It took Salter a while to realize that the company that cloned Bernard didn't stop...
...mind what they tell us in the fine print at the bottom of the page: “Founded in 1984, the Spalding Group [the licensee of the store’s merchandise] has been the principal supplier for the last five Republican presidential nominees.” As sick and as obscenely commercial the web site is, they are indeed the same products—in concept if not in form—by the same old people who’ve been sculpting the image of Republicanism for the past two decades...
...came from boarding school, and it was hard to settle down and focus,” Delano said. “I was getting sick a lot and hurt a lot. By the time I got better, I thought it was time to settle down and focus on studies and give myself a break to realize how much I missed squash. It was good to clear my mind...
...down and nursing her when she didn't seem hungry; in her view Tracy was responding not so much to the infant's needs but rather to her own insecurities. The situation finally peaked when Elizabeth mentioned that she had brought her son into her bed while he was sick, and Tracy responded, "Well, I'm so glad to see that you're finally meeting your child's needs." Says Elizabeth: "I was stunned." And hurt. Now a year later, the old friends rarely talk, and when they do, their conversations are formal. "We disagreed about lots of things before...