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When it announced in October that Gao Xingjian had become the first Chinese author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy singled out for particular praise his "great novel" "Soul Mountain," calling it "one of those singular literary creations that seem impossible to compare with anything but themselves." Proving that fate sometimes smiles on publishers, an English rendition of "Soul Mountain" (HarperCollins; 510 pages; $27) was in the works well before the Nobel hullabaloo made its author an international celebrity, and has now arrived with the unexpected imprimatur of the Swedish Academy...
...hooks and excellent production, but also the first song in which all the boys had song-writing involvement. Constructed with the melodies that stand out prominently on the first listen, "Time" has the makings of a single that may finally establish the possibility of boy band autonomy from the Swedish music factory...
Friday night was the ECAC home opener for Cornell, and the Lynah faithful were ready. Fish of all breeds--including Swedish--were splattered on the ice to greet everyone's favorite team from Cambridge. They remembered last year's playoffs and were confident of a repeat performance...
...with a flight attendant, late for a press conference. (In an early scenario, there was a blackout, and when the lights came back on, Sheen was in Fox's place.) The result is a one-joke character, and a predictable one at that. (How predictable? The flight attendant is Swedish...
...Nobel Prize committee reminded the world last week, that view radically changed in the late 1950s when Swedish pharmacologist Arvid Carlsson brought dopamine out of the shadows. First Carlsson established that the areas of the brain known as the basal ganglia contained very high levels of dopamine. Then he administered a drug that lowered those concentrations in laboratory mice. Soon the mice began to stagger and reel, losing control of their voluntary movements...