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...nobody better suited to describe the hilarious, improbable triumph of Robert Bolaño than Bolaño himself, which is a shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, in 2003, Bolaño was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaño was a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life. And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy has annoyingly but rightly pointed out, don't read...
...necessarily in direct conflict. Proposition Two’s opponents, branding themselves as Californians for Safe Food, extenuated this conflict by casting cage-free agriculture as a risk to public health. Opposition television ads featured anxious-looking doctors fretting that moving to cage-free was venturing into the unknown...
...campaign had John McCain dead even with - or slightly ahead of - Democrat Barack Obama. But Obama supporters believe it might not be that close, pointing to an unprecedented number of newly registered voters: some 340,000 this year, 150,000 of them under the age of 24. "The big unknown is the youth vote," says Democrat Chris Kelly of Columbia, a veteran of many campaigns. In his district alone, Kelly said, 3,300 new voters have signed up. "These are cell-phone kids - they don't show up in the polls...
...Barack Obama, we have one of the most remarkably impressive political figures we've ever seen. But he's still a relative unknown. Has there really been a searching examination of his past? He doesn't have a long record to examine. Most of his time in the Senate he's been out running for President - something he's done very well, and that's a point in his favor. But I think there's been a decided lack of interest in [his record]. There were media outlets who barely touched the Rev. Wright example. And that was a compelling...
...Hagan has been a stronger candidate in her own right than some expected. A relatively unknown State legislator from Greensboro, Hagan beat four contenders in the primary with 60% of the vote after better known candidates declined to run or withdrew. Democratic dominance of North Carolina's two legislative houses meant she's had a fairly safe voting record-she hasn't been forced into any uncomfortable votes by Republican opponents, as has happened to Democratic incumbents in the U.S. House of Representatives on taxes, energy and national security. Hagan is considered liberal by North Carolina standards...