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Best known for the romantic World War II epic Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which has sold more than 3 million copies in the U.K. alone, De Bernières in A Partisan's Daughter departs from what he describes as his usual "complicated, Latinate" writing style. He allows Roza and Chris to alternate in telling their stories, using their own raw and candid language. As a result, the novel reads like a memoir, which is fitting since De Bernières says Roza is the literary incarnation of a Serbian housemate he lived with in the late '70s. "When...
...considered given China's jailing of journalists. Darfur advocates Steven Spielberg, who recently withdrew as an artistic adviser to the Games, and Mia Farrow have called for a boycott because of China's Sudan links. "I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue business as usual [with the Olympics]," Spielberg said in February. Burmese activists have echoed the Darfur protesters, trying to shame Beijing for its close ties to Rangoon. Even many top athletes are now mulling a boycott...
...goal for Haviland. As the certified ace of the Crimson’s rotation, he was entrusted as a junior with pitching the second, nine-inning game of a doubleheader as opposed to the first, seven-inning game. Early on last season, Haviland would find himself tiring after his usual seven innings—and would sometimes find himself in trouble or in the dugout for the eighth and ninth.The senior recalls a game at Brown last April: the Crimson and the Bears were tied at four after seven innings, but the bullpen gave up eight runs in the eighth...
...Cynics and political opponents quickly noted that Obama used a forest of verbiage to camouflage a correction-the fact that he was aware of Wright's views, that he had heard such sermons from the pulpit, after first denying that he had. And that may have been politics as usual. But the speech wasn...
...slight, assertive woman who wore a winter hat in place of her usual hijab, Dr. Mohammed said she found her way to the Radcliffe Institute with the help of friends at American universities. One was University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Susan Stanford Friedman...