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...this point so decomposed that their limbs have a tendency to come off. To the south, in Galle, Z.A.M. Fahim, 45, a restaurant owner, has found 32 bodies before midday. He walks toward what was once a busy junction in the town and claims that the giant swamp that now obscures the ground hides 500 more corpses. To prove his point, he walks over to a marshy landscape of tires, rafters and mud. "There," he says, pointing to yet another body, lying in the open. "We are standing on bodies right...
...born-again wife Gail is left feeling "strangely deflated." With Winton, that's middle age for you. And it's around this subject that his characters circle. Like the narrator of the best story, Aquifer, who drives to the city upon hearing about a body dredged from a swamp he lived near as a child: "My mind was elsewhere, traveling in loops and ellipses away from middle age on the all-night sound of the moving tide...
With the remnants of Hurricane Ivan making Jordan Field more like Jordan Swamp, Maine (6-3) dealt the Crimson (4-1) its first loss of the season, a 2-0 setback on Saturday afternoon...
...head off on a boat to find a few dolphins. Sexual tension piles up, and myriad facts about the wondrous history of the Indian swampland are learned by all. Just when you think Piya and Kanai and the silent, brooding, vaguely Conradian Fokir will wander up and down the swamp forever, tigers begin to appear along the swamp, warning you that a climax is coming; it arrives in the form of a cyclone that sweeps the archipelago and kills one of the main characters...
JAMES CARVILLE normally pays his bills by fighting with big kids--like Tucker Carlson. But with his new children's book, Lu and the Swamp Ghost, the Democratic strategist targets a younger demo. The tale is based on a story from his mother's childhood. "A tramp hung out on the bayou behind her house," says the Cajun pundit. "She befriended this guy, and would give him foodstuffs. It's a story about the difference between riches and [monetary] wealth." We're pretty sure even Carlson couldn't argue with that...