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...Tigers had taken a 60-58 lead on two free throws by Andrius Jurkunas with 29.8 seconds left. Carlisle, the Golden Bears' leading scorer this season, drove the lane and scored as Tom Wideman was called for the foul...
John Edgar Wideman subtitles his eighth novel, Two Cities (Houghton Mifflin; 242 pages; $24), "A Love Story," but his version of that familiar genre seems at times the antithesis of standard romance. Robert Jones, 50, meets Kassima, 35, at a dance club, and she eventually invites him back to her house. Good sex leads to good conversation and then to love, an emotion that fills Kassima with terror and dread. Within a recent span of 10 months, both of her teenage sons were killed by gang violence in her Pittsburgh neighborhood and their father died of aids he contracted...
...Wideman refracts his novel entirely through the thoughts and memories of his characters. Reading Two Cities can be demanding: abrupt, unannounced shifts from one point of view to another, foreshadowings and flashbacks, no quotation marks to signal dialogues in progress. But a novel easier to read might also be easier to forget...
Meyers was back with the team at Oasis, another Palo Alto pizza hot spot, on Monday night. The campus restaurant was such a hot spot that WNBA star Jamila Wideman, a Stanford graduate, was munching away on a pizza pie in the middle of the celebration...
...court, the sneakers squeak with the same urgency as they do in the N.B.A., the coaches yell, "Why isn't that a foul?" at the refs, and the players get fined for roughhousing--though the $500 recently assessed against Nancy Lieberman-Cline of the Phoenix Mercury for holding Jamila Wideman of the Los Angeles Sparks by the neck equals what Dennis Rodman spends in a year for eyeliner...