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...McMansion design seems to me to have been originally conceived as an anesthetized imitation of the past, a sort of fairy-tale version of grandeur meant for mass consumption. As such, it is inevitably an artistic failure. The bizarre meld of faux-antique European design seems out of place 10 minutes away from Toledo (Ohio, that is, not Spain). Tradition cannot be created ex nihilo with only a vague sense of the past. It needs to be handed down from one generation to another or carefully rediscovered...
...bizarre tale of I.M. dominance, however, does not stop there. Puchtel’s case is similar to that of one of his classmates, former Harvard star receiver Brian Edwards ’05-'07: the same Brian Edwards who was the favorite target of current St. Louis Rams quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05 during the Crimson’s 2003 campaign and its 2004 undefeated season. Edwards attempted to play I.M. football for Winthrop this year. For the same reason as Puchtel, however, he is prohibited from playing I.M. football...
...cases like the Guzelyurtlu murder. "We won't recognize the [Turkish Cypriot] courts because that would mean recognizing the government," says Attorney General Clerides. For his part, a senior Turkish Cypriot official told Time that the northern authorities have no intention of handing the suspects over. It's a tale that could be repeated throughout the island. "We are having a hard time seeing the future," says Yashin, the peace activist. "We are lost in the present...
...slave revolt led by Nat Turner, which began not far from his childhood home in Newport News, Va. Confessions, written in the first person, drew bitter criticism from black leaders, who called it presumptuous, but won Styron a Pulitzer Prize. Along with Sophie's Choice, the harrowing tale of an Auschwitz survivor that became an Oscar-winning 1982 movie starring Meryl Streep, it cemented his reputation as a literary giant. But his success did not come easily. In 1990 he chronicled his struggle with depression in the memoir Darkness Visible. And in reference to his work, which he produced...
...Dragon Fire” is a cautionary tale for budding politicians and aspiring novelists alike. Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen has somehow managed to write a political thriller that purges both politics and thrillers of nearly every redeeming element...