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...appear... as if God had breathed it onto the glass," Lucy writes. Jones' breathless wonderment at the machines of modernity was next parlayed into her third novel Dreams of Speaking (2006), where academic heroine Alice is literally lost in Wonderland as she ponders "those things wired, lit, automatic and swift"-from space travel and cinema to Hedy Lamarr's invention of a radio-controlled torpedo and the horror of Hiroshima...
...torch had barely been extinguished when Romney decided to take another shot at politics, again with the opportunistic instincts of a venture capitalist. He muscled aside a vulnerable G.O.P. incumbent, acting Governor Jane Swift, after promising not to run against her; then he sideswiped Democrat Shannon O'Brien. After she accused him of trying to "mask a very conservative set of belief systems," Romney called her "unbecoming," leaving the impression that he considered it a none-too-veiled attack on his religion. He won, 50% to 45%, carrying many of the Democratic areas of the state...
...Graham Swift has a secret. Lots of them, actually. In seven novels and a collection of stories, he has developed a knack for measuring out his revelations in coffee spoons, saving the best for last. Of course, Swift has a shelf full of other knacks, some nicked from Dickens, Hardy, Flaubert and other 19th century greats. Together, these skills have made him one of Britain's most celebrated novelists. But his latest, Tomorrow, is a model of delayed gratification. That's what makes it so infuriating. Like his other novels, Tomorrow deals with sex, death, betrayal, history, intergenerational conflict, love...
...clear that they would not give in so easily this time around. Connecticut College jumped out to a 3-0 lead before Harvard finally ended the run with a goal late in the first quarter. From then on, the Crimson dominated the Camels with tight defensive pressure and swift transitional scoring. By the break Harvard, had built up a 7-4 advantage that it never relinquished. ”When we woke up, things started happening,” Farrar said. Although the win was a whole team effort, the talents of the freshmen class in particular were on display...
...teenage golfing phenom named Tiger Woods. Wall Street was waiting to see what Nike would do to follow up Michael Jordan and the enormously successful Air Jordan line of footwear. When the company announced that it had signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal with Woods, the reaction was swift--Nike stock fell 5%. Says Bob Wood, one of the officials in that room: "They thought we had overpaid...