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...they connected like old friends, stopping for lunch and getting their nails done. Siebert carried a little pump of pain medication over her shoulder like a purse. Luckily the few flashes of pain she felt passed so quickly that Siebert was able to take a turn at the wheel. "When she called me afterward," says her daughter Michelle Hovey, "you would have thought she'd been to Hawaii and back...
...Even in the throes of passion, Malouf's characters have a tendency to sublimate their feelings. Like Jo, who "wanted a love that would be overwhelming, that would make a wind-blown leaf of her, a runaway wheel," the acclaimed Australian writer, now 72, prefers to explore more spiritual intimacies. This is the theme of his seven new short stories, each in its own way a memento mori. In War Baby, an abandoned son wears his late father's R.A.A.F. greatcoat in preparation for fighting in Vietnam; in Elsewhere, a Blue Mountains father grieves for his lost daughter by reading...
Thank the cruel, vengeful gods for Cormac McCarthy, who delivers a much more comprehensive apocalypse in The Road (Knopf; 241 pages), which is about half the length of Thirteen Moons but 20 times as ruthless. The scenario: a man and his son push a shopping cart with a wiggly wheel through a landscape from which all plant and animal life has been scoured by some undefined but definitive calamity--we know only of "a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that left survivors "sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking...
Harvard students who just spent their summers in locales near and far bumped into each other—literally—for the first time this fall at a Friday evening carnival in Tercentenary Theatre. While families and a Ferris Wheel were nowhere to be found, revelers donning henna tattoos and balloon hats filled the Yard, as the three-hour event attracted 7,000 people, according to organizers’ estimates. “I’m so happy we’re all normal,” said Tiffany M. Bradshaw ’10. Students, faculty...
...wheel came round last week in a strange mix of announcements. In the East Room, Bush unveiled his story line: essentially, I have brought these captives out of the darkness of CIA "black site" prisons to get things started legally; you, the Congress, must approve my proposal for a very narrowly proscribed military tribunal to dispose of them. He added that the harsh interrogation methods were not illegal, were often productive and were something he had reserved the right to order again, ostensibly through the CIA. Meanwhile, across the Potomac, a Pentagon panel met the press to disclose...