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...strongest points of the collection, underscoring both life’s pathos and surrealism. Ishiguro examines the absurdity of how humans protect themselves from the outside world and the moment in which this protection begins to wear down. Eloise McCormack, the self-professed virtuoso cellist who coaches young Tibor on his technique, eventually confesses that she cannot play the cello. She justifies this by claiming that other, less-gifted teachers would have destroyed her innate gift if she had taken lessons with them: “I knew I had to protect my gift against people who, however well-intentioned...
...change our image, we are finished." Still, Gyurcsany's first message has been one of continuity. To soothe markets and investors worried that the political turmoil would derail efforts to rein in Hungary's 5% budget deficit, he has said he will keep the respected Finance Minister, Tibor Draskovics, in his post...
...thinking." The core of the team is composed of three Sydney veterans. In addition to Kásás, there's Gergely Kiss, 26, Hungary's top scorer in 2000, with 14 goals in eight games and hat tricks in both the semifinal and final, and captain Tibor Benedek, 32, a lefty who scored four times in the Sydney final and remains one of the team's strongest all-around players. But the key is Kásás, a versatile, 6-ft.-7-in. right-hander who is the team's fastest swimmer and perhaps the finest...
...lose the plot. His publishers added to the fury this year by refusing to let reviewers see Yellow Dog unless they signed a vow of silence until it is safely in bookstores; some took that as a signal that the book is a dog in more than name. Tibor Fischer, whose novel Voyage to the End of the Room is to be released the same day, prematurely savaged Yellow Dog in a widely quoted newspaper article last month. Other literary types piled on, sniffing in print that Amis' 10th novel would surely not be nominated for next month...
...KERIK: Tibor tells me that when the building fell, he ducked into an insert in [a neighboring building], and it fell around him. If he'd been four feet away, he'd have been dead. That's when it really hits home...