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...against this background that Austerlitz realizes “that all my life had been a constant process of obliteration, a turning away from myself and the world,” and undergoes his journey through Europe: travelling from the Czech Republic to England via Germany by train, tracing the route of the Kinder-transport which spirited him from Prague as a five-year old boy in 1939. After learning that his mother was interred at a camp in Terezín in 1942, he visits the town’s Ghetto Museum, and is henceforth tormented by images...
...world’s busiest airport, and the fifth-largest number of Fortune 500 companies, falling behind two shockingly Southern cities—Houston and Dallas. True, you can find serene, peaceful farms if you drive for a few hours outside of Atlanta, a similar experience to taking the train out from Paris or any other cosmopolitan city. I’ve been to a farm once, and that was because my enthusiastic parents wanted to show me what farm animals look like in real life. Yet despite Georgia’s decisive modernity, I am still the brunt...
...Harvard, rugby is a club sport, but that doesn’t mean team members take it lightly. The team practices at least three times a week, sometimes with a fourth optional practice run by the captains, and most players also train on their...
...restaurant (the colloquial term for fried chicken there is kentucky, and a mixed platter is about $12.50 or the equivalent in euros, which is the preferred foreign currency). At the capital's first dedicated Italian eatery - the Korean chefs were sent by the state to Naples and Rome to train - an authentic, fantastic capricciosa pizza will cost just under $12. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...what's the big take-away? We're finally at the point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and be reasonably sure it's not an oncoming train. But there is more pain to come. We're not finished with this cycle...