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...retired pastor in Minneapolis, Minn. "It's a good thing, though, that we live frugally and have the handy cash to be able to do this." Whether it's delaying retirement, putting off a major trip or holding on to the house so there's a spare room for Junior to come home to, parents of graduating college students are realizing that their financial obligations are not over once their children enter the working world. An economy that is still in recovery has left today's college graduates facing fewer job opportunities at lower starting salaries...
...serious photographers in need of a good night's rest, or those who have time to spare, consider camping out or taking a room at one of several basic but adequate guesthouses scattered near the base. Watch your step as you're straining for that perfect picture, though. There are no guardrails, and it's a long way down to Laos...
...Kunzru is as adaptable as his protean protagonist, effortlessly evoking a lush Indian landscape and a romantic Oxford, switching from wit to weight without misstep. But something is lacking. Kunzru's hero has identities to spare but no soul, and in the end he crumbles away. Kunzru's writing suffers similarly: it is the work of a brilliant literary impressionist who hits every symbol, fulfills every gesture, while missing something essential beneath the shining surface. Perhaps he knows this. "In between each impression," Kunzru writes, "just at the moment when one person falls away and the next...
...explanation that seems plausible, but I don’t think it accounts for another, more intriguing factor at work when students put off their work until the last minute, force themselves to churn out mini-theses overnight and complete the finished product with less than an hour to spare: confidence. It takes remarkable amounts of faith and certainty in oneself to leave a mere twenty-four hours to deconstruct Kantian metaphysics or to absorb the entire set of mechanisms for an orgo exam. For many of us at this school, myself included, the thought of waiting until the last...
Then, Christino completed her first-half hat trick with 7:35 to spare, taking a pass from Brooks and beating Caggiano over her left shoulder...