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...What can I tell you about Pedro Infante? If you're a Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who he is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. If your racial and cultural ethnicity is Other, then it's about time you learned about the most famous of Mexican singers and actors." -Denise Chavéz, from her 2002 novel Loving Pedro Infante...
...year later, a child is born: Belén, and her skin is dark. Ana Luisa, horrified, and fearful of being ostracized by her rich friends, blames José Carlos for having had black ancestors. Now would seem to be the time to tell Ana Luisa where she came from; but the doctor says her heart is too weak to take a severe shock. "I wish I could say it were my fault," the new father says of his baby girl. "Then I could proudly say she is from my black blood." Instead he promises Mercé he will keep...
...never been able to keep a secret, but top officials were really steamed this week when some unknown defense official tipped off the press to the impending announcement that Army troops would be spending more time in combat zones. In an ideal world, commanders want to be able to tell their combat units, in their own way, that they won't be going home as early as they hoped. Instead, Army grunts got the bad news via the Internet after it leaked prematurely to reporters Tuesday night...
...could then talk to their troops 48 hours before we made a public announcement," Gates said. He complained as he officially announced that active-duty Army troops in Afghanistan and Iraq will stay there for 15 months, instead of the planned 12, until further notice. "And I can't tell you how angry it makes many of us that one individual would create potentially so much hardship not only for our servicemen and -women, but their families, by letting them read about something like this in the newspapers...
...toilet and closed my eyes. Then I fell asleep. Then I woke up.” But “The Savage Detectives” is much more than a novel about poets. Bolaño is an extraordinarily generous writer, and he allows each character to tell his own story in his own voice. (When reading certain blowhard characters, it must be said, one can’t help but wish that Bolaño would be a little less generous.) When the novel is at its best, it seems like a brilliant and beautiful short story begins every...