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...waning days of 2007, as the Washington political set scurried to get out of town for holiday vacations, Martin bulldozed through a dramatic relaxation of the cross-ownership rules that ensure a diversity of voices in our local media markets. Now, local media moguls can buy both a television station and the major newspaper in the local market. And because people of color and women are more likely to be single-station owners, they are especially susceptible to local consolidation efforts...
...protect her from the press, her mother, played by Catherine O’Hara (“Home Alone”), does “what any normal mother would do”: She takes out the eye of invading paparazzo Lemon (Peter Dinklage, “The Station Agent”), fakes baby Penelope’s death, and locks the girl up in the family’s country estate. As soon as Penelope turns 18, her mother hires a matchmaker and lines up a gaggle of eligible young aristocrats to woo her daughter and lift the curse...
...wish we were further along. When I was in college 25 years ago, I thought that by the time I reached this elderly station in my life, these problems would be solved. Well, they...
...After briefly allowing this novelistic flourish to enter the story, Bolaño concludes by again taking on the dispassionate voice of the encyclopedist. After Claudia’s death, he tells us in the most understated yet poignant manner, Luz “crashed into a gas station. The explosion was considerable.”But that literary urge cannot be kept out of the book. Maybe Claudia is both right and wrong: Literature cannot transcend politics, but politics cannot escape literature. It’s a truth that Bolaño lived when he led an outlaw band...
...these?3)Post-thesis life: Department celebrations. Going to be awesome! Spring break! After college? Time for a whole new round of anxiety that can only be alleviated by eating.4)Eating. When all else fails, the latest Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) creation is the ultimate small talk. Noodle station? Nice bowls. Ranger cookies! Often too crunchy, often too soft, but make you feel like you are going on an expedition into the forest. Popcorn chicken. What you wanted when you started this column. Go ahead, indulge in a few, er, kernels? If, after entering civilization in the dining hall...