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...services-and complicate efforts to fight the pandemic. Countries and businesses need contingency plans in place now, yet in Asia only Japan has any real pandemic scheme. The poor Southeast Asian countries that will be the world's front line against bird flu are almost totally unprepared. They will suffer first, and they will suffer the most...
...Charlotte (a term, like many bits of slang—including “hooking up,” “getting crunked,” and “grinding” Wolfe delights in establishing his knowledge of). Charlotte’s academic pursuits initially suffer setbacks as well, as when she takes a class on French Literature populated by “steaks” like Jojo who are ushered through easy courses to maintain GPAs eligible for NCAA competition...
...entrance lines, the problem with this year’s tailgate seems confined to particular individuals and their personal attitudes—be it consuming to dangerous excess or a single-minded obsession with underage drinking. In the end, Harvard-hosted tailgates for The Game will continue to suffer until authorities emphasize safe drinking instead of no drinking...
Victims of an illegal war of choice, helpless civilians are ripped asunder by showers of bombs and bullets, while others are driven from their homes only to suffer the mortal pangs of disease and malnutrition. State-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages and ravage them, going from street to street and house to house, propelled by an extraordinary sense of revenge and right. Places of worship are rehabilitated into killing fields, where the wounded and infirm are annihilated in the presence of God. These invaders, some indigenous and some from far-off lands, do not fight...
This is an odd book. Much of it consists of gorgeous, very precise descriptions of the hideous misfortunes that befall the people who surround Ella and Franco. They suffer diphtheria, syphilis, scalding, torture, drowning, stabbing, smallpox, gunfire and, in a couple of instances, grisly botched amputations. None of that bothers Ella and Franco much. They are like cruel children: dreamy, whimsical, pleasure loving, utterly lacking in remorse or the kind of inward reflection one hopes for from characters in novels. In one scene Franco viciously whips a dog because it resembles a dog that bit him when he was little...