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...Mother is at its most poignant when Lakshmi loses power over her brood. Her granddaughter Dimple marries Luke, a rich Japanese-Chinese businessman in Kuala Lumpur. Their romance starts off passionately, but Luke's eye wanders and their union turns into a frosty farce. Luke pays a waiter to sleep with his wife and Dimple complies, hoping the assignation will lead to divorce. To her horror she finds she has stepped into her husband's new kinky obsession. Luke and Dimple's twisted relationship provides startling scenes that save the novel from reading like it's been cooked up from...
...tourists, too much space, and a lack of definition as a town. Here at Harvard, we have the exact opposite problems. We have far too many tourists, all of whom show up in tour buses at 7 a.m. and feed the squirrels. We have no space whatsoever; students sleep on top of each other (though nothing erotic ever seems to come of this), and there are far more cars than parking spaces. There is so little space that half of Harvard is considering leaving Cambridge altogether for Allston...
...many of us wake up in the night to the scratching of ambitions underneath the floorboards and in the radiators, and the rattlings of pipe dreams struggling to get out? Who put these monsters there to trouble our sleep? Some were abandoned by former residents out of forgetfulness or spite; the others are ours and were stuck there outside the bounds of space and time to allow us to focus on present exigencies. Excluded from our plans and schemes, they subsist of their own will and take on malignant proportions. Only a superbly efficient soul can repress the symptoms completely...
...this point—but he’s completely indoctrinated in the spirit of the place. He says he spends most weekends in Widener and that he stays two to three weeks ahead of the reading in most of his courses. “I try to sleep as little as possible. I try to be as involved as I can,” he says...
...many would-be party animals, the only thing separating them from a great night out is a good night’s sleep. Yes, sadly, Mr. Sandman has brought an early end to many a Friday night. But, no longer, thanks to Vinergy—a new potent potable that blends the “delicateness and art” of a fine wine with a “zap” of caffeine and then throws in some bubbles for “fun.” This self-proclaimed “swanky sippable?...