Word: soule
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...what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored polar bear Iorek Byrnison. Nobody writes dialogue for gunslingers like a Brit: "Damn, Hester," Scoresby says...
Zimbabwe, of course, did not sign up to be reviewed, and no mechanism exists to hold it to account. The unfolding battle for its political soul, however, is a test for the whole continent. Will its rulers stand by the principles they have signed up to, or will Mugabe's personal stature and his anti-Western rhetoric trump these principles? This is a defining moment not just for Zimbabwe but for Africa...
...been seen as the soldiers of an invading army," says Mike Nicol, co-author with Joanne Hichens of Out to Score. "Crime writing is first and foremost about the two great human issues: mortality and morality. If you write about those two subjects you get to the heart and soul of a country, and so local crime writing is trying to make sense of this particularly vicious period of our history...
...rested precariously above splintered and warped planks of wood. Tacked-up plastic sheets covered some of the holes where windows and doors had once been; others were left open to the elements. Behind a rusty chain-link fence, an old church stood in cross-section, exposing its soul to the world. The area was completely abandoned—our car was the only apparent source of movement and sound. I felt like a rubbernecker each time my family stopped to snap photos, but nobody was around to judge. I hadn’t expected things to be this severe...
...recommendation refused. “They wouldn’t write for Harvard because they thought it was a bunch of Communists, a bunch of atheists, a bunch of rich snobs, and if you went there you’d flunk out and you’d lose your soul,” said William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, who has served as dean for the last 22 years. “At that point it made Harvard seem intriguing and made me more determined to apply.”Fitzsimmons, who is a graduate of Archbishop Williams...