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...story is stuffed into kitschy, reductive binaries: life versus death, Hispanic versus white.“Her Dog” isn’t a letdown because of its reductive symbolism and overt motifs, but because it’s just an inexplicable anomaly. A man walks his dead wife??s dog out of a sense of obligation. Nice notion—but the story quickly disintegrates into a hokey dialogue between the main character and the dog.In his stories about the military, on the other hand, Wolff beautifully zeroes in on the minutiae of life?...
...according to Sarah Stewart. “For want of a better word, [Zeph] also had his impish side,” Thomas said at one point, before recalling Stewart’s wry enjoyment of the struggles and awkwardness that occurred when Thomas found himself teaching his own wife??then a graduate student—in an advanced Latin course. Ralph J. Hexter ’74, the president of Hampshire College, who is, by his own account, one of the first few openly gay college presidents in the country, said after the memorial ceremony that...
...have the luxury of only dealing with subjects that engage people.”In person, Toobin seems more like a student than the prominent legal mind that he is. During our interview, he swiveled his chair with the restless energy of a 20-something and laughed away his wife??s suggestion that he get a Blackberry.But his youthful demeanor belies his accomplished resume: an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an associate counsel on the Oliver North/Iran-Contra trial, and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney—all by age 32.At that point, in 1993, Toobin left...
...Luckily, before that irreversible leap into insanity, my answer arrived – in the form of a vividly older and angrier Bill Clinton taking on the stage. It was after his wife??s unexpected defeat in Iowa, and at first, I was taken aback. But then it came to me. At her weakest political moment, Hillary did not stand up for the positions or the campaigning style that had led to her downfall...
...maybe I should recap. In the famed “Thousand and One Nights,” King Shahriyar reacts somewhat poorly to his wife??s infidelity: He executes her, declares all women to be unfaithful, and marries a succession of virgins only to have each one executed the following morning. Irritatingly enough, he runs out of virgins...