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Listen to Adam Green’s latest album “Sixes & Sevens” and you’ll spend 48 minutes inside the head of an intelligent rambler with a penchant for rhyming and a short attention span. With his tongue lodged firmly in his cheek, Green’s latest effort is neither earth-shattering nor disappointing. Green, whose career plodded steadily forward after he entered the anti-folk scene in 1998, has recently garnered a lot of face time because of his appearance on the “Juno” soundtrack with former Moldy...
...characters, Ganeshananthan creates a world that, while not completely original, provides insight into the unique experiences of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants. Just as authors like Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende have used the histories and genealogies of large, sprawling families to craft novels that span several important generations in a conflict-ridden area, “Love Marriage” is able to both demonstrate a culture in action and create memorable characters.Told in distinct one- to three-page sections that focus on one or two particular characters, often announced in italics at the beginning...
...Tatiana Andreyeva, a postdoctoral research associate at Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, a team of researchers questioned 1,100 subjects, aged 35 to 74, twice over a 10-year span (once between 1995 and 1996, and again between 2004 and 2006). The respondents answered 11 questions about whether they had been discriminated against in the context of common life experiences - including applying to college or for a scholarship, renting or buying a home in a neighborhood they desired, applying for a bank loan or dealing with police. Participants answered nine additional questions about everyday experiences, such...
...lawmakers this week, one major aspect of the picture in Iraq got scant mention. Iraq's Sunni insurgency and its most vicious wing, al-Qaeda in Iraq, was hardly discussed, even though Petraeus stressed that the Sunni insurgency remained alive and a potent threat. Anyone tuning in to C-SPAN - including al-Qaeda - might have gleaned a few lessons from the testimony about the U.S. strategy and vulnerabilities in Iraq...
...criminal presence can be inferred from the rusty dumpsters and lampposts riddled with bullet holes. In the weeks following the Duisburg killings, a Time reporter and photographer visiting San Luca were met by a pair of teenagers whizzing past on a moped three times in a five-minute span - staring menacingly and veering closer each time. Resident Luca Giorgi offered a warmer welcome, but his message was ambiguous. "Every time something happens, they talk about 'Ndrangheta. What is this 'Ndrangheta?" asks the 33-year-old pizzamaker, who spent a decade in the northern city of Bologna before returning...