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...stories about the military, on the other hand, Wolff beautifully zeroes in on the minutiae of life—and as a result, they’re probably the best of the bunch. In “Awaiting Orders,” a sergeant meets the sister and son of one of his soldiers who has shipped out for Iraq. Although the sergeant is “no longer able to imagine himself as a civilian—the formlessness of that life, the endless petty choices to be made”—he begins to speculate about...
...refuses.Lahiri’s simple, direct prose belies the careful plotted nature of her narratives; all is revealed in a single telling detail and the relationships that seem so stable are upended. When Ruma discovers a postcard that her father had written to his lady friend that her son borrowed and attempted to plant in the earth, she gazes again at the hydrangea. She now correctly reads the hydrangea’s signification as her father’s attempt to ground his itinerant lifestyle choice, his affirmation of a self that doesn’t fit neatly...
...fail. Nepal is a country still in the shadow of a bloody decade-long civil war fought between Maoist rebels and the monarchy's security forces, interrupted, albeit briefly, by the 2001 massacre of eleven members of the royal family allegedly at the hands of the king's own son. A peace deal brokered two years ago brought the remnants of the monarchy to its knees and the Maoists into the political mainstream, but efforts to further the process along have been marred throughout by political squabbling and vigilante violence. In the run-up to yesterday's elections, at least...
...still boast of the fact that Jack Kennedy was elected by guys like them. Philadelphia gave Kennedy a 330,000-vote plurality in 1960, enough to swamp the rest of the state. Back then, Pennsylvania had as many electoral votes as California, a state Kennedy lost to native son Richard Nixon...
...several British papers reported that police were examining alleged similarities between the case and a storyline from a British television drama series, Shameless, shown less than a month before the 9-year-old vanished. In that episode, the head of a dysfunctional family staged a fake kidnap of his son in an attempt to obtain a ransom...