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...been shortlisted for this year's German Book Award, which will be announced at next week's international book fair in Frankfurt - and critics there hold her in high esteem, but almost no one considered her a figure of global literary eminence. (See a video with Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.) "Twenty years after the end of the East-West conflict, Herta Müller has been rewarded for keeping alive memories of the inhumane side of state communism," said Michael Krüger, of the publishing house Carl Hanser, based in Munich. "She is an impressive example...
...first rain delay Nadal was up two sets to love, and his uncle, Toni Nadal - who is also his coach - basically says, "You're up two sets to love. What do you need me for?" Then he actually took a nap in the locker room. [During] the second rain delay, in the fifth set, Uncle Toni is giving Nadal a pep talk, and Nadal interrupts him and says, "Look, don't worry. I won the first and second sets - I can win the final...
...Survivors BBQ. Everyone Welcome," read the handwritten sign tacked onto a recently rebuilt home last weekend in a Cedar Rapids neighborhood still ravaged a year after the city's worst flooding disaster. "We've become stronger - more of a family," says Toni Grimm, the home's owner, talking about her neighborhood, Czech Village, a historic ethnic area bordering the now tranquil Cedar River. Last June, the river swamped 10 square miles of Iowa's second largest city (metro-area pop. 255,000). There are signs of life in the downtown business district, with factories and shops reopened. But whole swaths...
After enduring months of living in FEMA trailers, Toni Grimm and the neighbors at her barbecue are trying to move on - and stay put. Among the fortunate few with flood insurance, they still lost irreplaceable possessions to the flood waters. But Grimm's husband Tim says, "We aren't planning on going anywhere...
...because I still like real books. I don’t even care that it’s convenient and easy to carry. That sounds like a sales pitch for a handgun.As part of the Kindle’s advertising, Amazon, without a hint of irony, had Toni Morrison talk about why she likes it. At one point during the three minute clip, the Nobel Prize winning author says, “When you are interactive with a book, that’s what you do, you own it, you can mark it, you can quarrel with...