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...price tag scared everybody off. They thought we'd put our ass in a sling if it failed. It really showed me that a lot of members are more worried about the continued existence of their own private club than they are about doing something for students," he added...
...latest development in the "War of the Waleses"--or "War of the Windsors," whichever you prefer--Maj. James Hewitt reveals that he "did it with Di" (in Time's elegant phrasing). Charles, ever-ready to retaliate in the Fleet Street mud-sling, contends that he never loved Diana, and felt forced to marry her by his overbearing, emotionally-traumatizing father and aloof mother...
...communism devours its own and Germany attacks and destroys millions more. Members of the Gradov family, led by Dr. Boris Nikitovich, make their separate ways through history. Aksyonov impressively spreads out a panorama of suffering, but he overlays it with shameless melodrama, unconvincing uplift and grotesque humor. Readers who sling their hammock, move their samovar onto their veranda and settle down for an old-fashioned summer read may be distracted by a narrative farrago that includes a scene in which Dr. Gradov nearly wins the Order of Lenin for giving Stalin an emergency enema...
...misogynists and recovering misogynists. "Manhood," he writes, "is the paradigm of injustice . . . Refusing to believe in manhood is the hot big bang of human freedom." Soft-core pamphleteering. Here we see the descendants of the ancient priests of Cybele, who as part of their initiation would castrate themselves and sling their testicles into the earth mother's pine tree...
...sling from 10 days to two weeks, and we'll take it from there," Cohagan said. "I've just got to wait and let the pain settle down. I'm aiming to be back for the RPI game [on December...