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...sharp sting of success. Last week Turkey was in the embarrassing position of having native son ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...
...often those two subjects go hand-in-hand). The actors relish lines like, “Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults—ah!—there is the sting of life.” And they do remarkably well with many of the key scenes: a confrontation between Lady Windermere and Mrs. Erlynne is powerful, rich in desperation and dramatic irony. Nearly all the characters sound completely convincing talking elegantly about why they are ruthless or superficial or why they?...
...overly friendly" e-mails from Congressman Foley to one page were first made public on the "Stop Sex Predators" website-they were the sixth messages of any kind posted to the blog. This site has the look and feel of an amateur production-less a sophisticated sting operation than a man in a sandwich board, perhaps with a tinfoil hat accessory. The typos, the brief back catalog, the, um, single-mindedness all have led some in the blogosphere to question the site's legitimacy. No one knows for sure how this blogger came across the e-mails...
...innovative program would try to evoke the feel of the Old South through athletic challenges designed to bring out the conflicts and tensions of life below the Mason-Dixon Line. A cast of young twenty-something Los Angeles-area cocktail waitresses, aspiring actors, and pharmaceutical reps will feel the sting of prejudice and the guilt of oppressing others while competing to win one million dollars in cash.But this show is so much more than merely a new twist on an old genre. In a move unprecedented in television history, “Survivor: Jim Crow South” would break...
...DIED. Robert Earl Jones, 96, veteran actor of stage and screen who famously played Robert Redford's con-man mentor in the Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, New Jersey. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings, and won acclaim in 1962 for the off-Broadway Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...