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HRUAI is encouraging students to donate money, which will go directly to the refugees. Recognizing that students may not have much money to spare, organizers emphasized how far a single dollar can go in the region-buying about 5 kg. of potatoes, 3 kg. of beans or 2 liters of milk...
...they are befriended--hounded, really--by Jar Jar, a disaster-prone outcast of the Gungan race. He leads them to Amidala the Naboo Queen, whom they intend to take to the Republic's assembly in Coruscant. Engine trouble forces them to detour to Tatooine, where Qui-Gon bargains for spare spacecraft parts with Watto, a potbellied, hummingbird-winged junkman. In Anakin, Watto's slave boy, Qui-Gon senses an unusual precocity, one might almost say a Force. Qui-Gon makes a bet with Watto. If Anakin miraculously wins the big Podrace against the swaggering champ Sebulba, the boy will...
...mattress covers sewn into snow tunics and in creepers made of tightly knotted rope," the young couple romancing as "the apples hung heavy in the late-day sun, the leaves stirred in the wind." The danger in such textured simplicity, though, is that the book can seem not quite spare enough for parable, yet not quite fleshed out enough for nuanced moral drama...
WAYNE GRETZKY No fireworks, no baseball stint, just a man who knows to quit while he has teeth to spare...
...secret. "Every person goes about their life with a bit of perversion that is unadmittable, secretive, loathed," Kaye writes. Marred by a central inconsistency--could Joss Moody have been both such a wonderful husband and such a terrible father?--this debut novel's music comes from the language: spare, haunting, dreamlike...