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...book, Game Time (Harcourt; 398 pages), is a collection of pieces written for the New Yorker. Culled from 40 years and around a million words of baseball writing, they have a certain aged, triple-distilled quality: each one has the internal complexity of a novel. Angell likes to skirt the edges of the diamond: he keeps a lonely big-league scout company as he roves bedraggled backwoods ball parks in search of talent, he hunts down the aging grandmaster Bob Gibson in retirement, and he joins Shakespeare-quoting baseball announcer Tim McCarver in the broadcast booth. The pieces are arranged...
...space, to the sexual assault policy, to a dearth of tenured females—are as urgent as ever, and call for some sort of feminism. But these days, everyone wants to define the word for him or herself. Feminists can be activist, intellectual, angry, content, gender-rejecting or skirt-wearing...
...stationed in the Persian Gulf. In one entry, he writes about a recent encounter with some locals: "They were glued to their satellite TV set, switching between al-Jazeera, Fox News, BBC, the local station and Iraqi TV. They especially enjoyed the female anchor on Fox, with her short skirt." At sgtstryker.com the mother of a female Marine posts excerpts from her daughter's e-mails. And at chinpokomon.com Naval Lieut. Commander Kevin Mickey, stationed at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, posts droll photos and strong opinions about what should be done to Iraqis who execute U.S. POWs...
...lasted nine weeks in the menage, then departed for the winter. But as Cohen records in The House on Beartown Road (Random House; 256 pages), a curious symmetry emerged out of the chaos. As one of her charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones. Ava, speaking in almost-words, a sloppy protospeech, dances at language's doorway." Cohen's amazing reserve of humor and honesty in the face of adversity--which includes occasional passes from her dad--recall...
Unprecedented bid inflation ensued. Talia J. Rosenberg ’06 was introduced by the emcees and did her thing on the runway in a conservative, white button-down and a sexy, black velvet skirt. Several guys were helplessly enraptured. Rosenberg’s admirers competed for the pleasure of her company by shouting out bids upwards of $100 as the crowd cheered them on. Her friend and co-worker at the Harvard AIDS Coalition prevailed, laying down a hefty $112 for a single date...