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...between the ambassadors of three nations. A third character writes a poem called “Concentration Camp” that, we’re told, “is the humorous and at times touching story of [his] life as a child, between the ages of five and ten, in a middle-class neighborhood of Caracas.”The blackness of this humor is a reminder that, however amusing their writing may be, these characters remain misanthropic monsters. Throughout the book, Bolaño exhibits an anxiety about the inability to simply enjoy literature for its own sake...
...kids and gave up the responsibility,” he says. “It just sat there and collected dust until last spring when I started teaching classes there again.”Though he is now actively running two separate weekly courses, each with an average of ten students, Tischfield is still uncertain about the future of the studio.“I would hate to see it go into hibernation again. The only problem is that much of what I know about running studios comes from personal experience. I was extremely lucky to get while in high...
...There’s never been anybody who’s covered the Supreme Court with the sensitivity, the depth, and the perception that she has.”A Government concentrator at Radcliffe, Greenhouse joined the Times only a month after graduating magna cum laude in 1968. Ten years later, she found herself assigned to the paper’s Washington bureau as the Supreme Court correspondent—a beat she has held ever since.Greenhouse’s seniority and studied attention to her subject matter made her an object of tremendous respect among her colleagues...
...brings the album back to the dance floor with samples from an otherwise perfectly good Daft Punk song, “Daftendirekt.” Like labelmate Kanye’s sampling of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” Jackson adds nothing to this ten-year-old material, producing a song that survives on Daft Punk’s merits alone. The sampling is so blatant that it’s easy to pretend you’re listening to the original track, which is the only good thing about this shameless rip-off. The album...
...damage had been done, particularly among African-American voters. Ten days before the crucial Ohio and Texas primaries, Hillary was still on the defensive, saying at a conference on African-American issues in New Orleans, "If anyone was offended by anything that was said - whether it was meant or not, misinterpreted or not - obviously I regret that...