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...pages; $24), which has now been issued in the U.S. That said, there's not much similarity between the two novels. Smilla has a powerful narrative flow; Dreams is a lumpish absurdity that fuddles to a halt after several dozen pages, begins again with new characters and repeats this throat clearing until well past the book's midsection. In these first chapters Hoeg tries something like magic realism, then gives up a promising experiment...
...precisely at the moment that I envision myself clapping, a lump develops in my throat. The Yasser Arafat of yesterday is still very much alive, maybe not in the news, but in my mind. He was the head of the P.L.O., an organization recognized across the world as one heavily involved in terrorist activities...
...Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin can shake Arafat's hand with what is probably a much larger lump in his throat than mine, I can certainly bring myself to applaud. Not too loud though, and without any cheering--an ambivalent applause. Arafat does not deserve to be received with whole-hearted approval and respect. The Arafat of today should not be let off the hook for the crimes he committed yesterday. As he gets up to speak he should feel the same lump in his throat which he has caused so many others to feel...
...terror lasted for two hours. As the engine of the bus started, women began wailing, throwing themselves at the window, but there was nothing they could do. When the bus stopped again, Ogresevic and her son got out. A soldier immediately grabbed him and put a knife to his throat. "He wanted 1,000 deutsche marks [$700] not to kill my son or rape my daughter. I had no choice. I had to pay," Ogresevic said. The soldier told her to march along a small track. She saw the bodies of two Muslim women. One lay facedown...
...response, Tierney grabbed one of the men by the throat, and hit him in the face, according to members of the Harvard University Police Department...