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...Rudd as a "blame game." Terms like "infrastructure" and "skills" are now in common use as shorthand for government failure. Just enough policy detail is being released to maintain momentum. But for now, at least, Labor's new pragmatism and micro policy steps limit the government's ability to slap it down...
...engage his reader with the everyday oddness of Israel. "I would call it subjective realism," he says of his bizarre storylines. "I am trying to show things the way they feel." Overwhelmingly, in Keret's fiction, things feel edgy. Throughout Missing Kissinger, there is the sense of the dark slap-shtick of a country where, through dumb luck, a coffee in the wrong café could spell death by suicide bomber...
...literary model, Keret explains from his home in Tel Aviv, it is Franz Kafka. "Kafka tries to reach his moral goal by disorientating the reader," he says. "A short story in this style is like a slap in the face." If Kafka offers a slap, Keret's stories are more like a rifle-butt blow to the jaw. In one tale, the protagonist spots a woman walking down the street and sees, a second later, "the tip of a knife sticking out of the front of her neck...
...tough turnover, but at the same time, it was a lucky shot.” Although the Crimson outshot the Knights, 18-7, in the second period, Clarkson shut down Harvard’s offensive onslaught. Off of a long pass from Reese, Taylor took a fast slap shot at the Golden Knights net, but goaltender David Leggio halted the Crimson attack. Holding Harvard scoreless, Clarkson handed the Crimson its first shutout since a 2004 tie against Northern Michigan and its first shutout loss in 98 games. “We had numerous chances to score, but their goalie played...
...power play and it’s starting to come together for us,” Wilson said. With five minutes to go in the second, the Bulldogs tied the score. The Harvard goalie, sophomore Brittany Martin, dropped the puck after making a glove save on a Helen Resor slap shot. Yale’s Crysti Howser came in on the rebound and buried the loose puck. It was Martin’s only mishap of the game, and she would recover to finish with 19 saves on 20 shots. “You have to be resilient and come...