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...Risk” never mentions Scarpetta, a fleshed-out character who inspires care and concern. The hero is the disappointingly empty Massachusetts state police investigator Winston Garano. He is handsome, a sharp dresser, and a rescuer of abused dogs, but the novella is too short and scattered to make him more than just a smart, pretty face...
...class. Pessl transforms nouns to verbs (“triple-lutzed”, “couch potatoed”), recites “Casablanca” and German poetry, and boasts an impressive and oft-quoted literary collection; she peppers the text with nods to real historical heroes (Winston Churchill) and imagined ones (“the late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist and social observer”). Several hand-drawn visual aids—the astute observations of our protagonist—are scattered throughout the text. A final exam is included...
...content may be semi-suitable for the big screen, the lectures are less than scintillating. Once known as “Gutmosphere,” the course’s formerly stratospheric grade inflation has, tragically, returned to earth. To avoid plummeting yourself, weasel your way into TF Winston Tao’s section—he’s known for being friendly and a good explainer.If you embrace grade deflation, icy cold showers, and iTunes, Science A-49, “The Physics of Music and Sound,” is a good, if tough, Core choice. You?...
Terrorism and war may bedominating the debatein Washington, but step outside the Beltway, and politicians will tell you that voters have other things on their mind. G.O.P. pollster David Winston says the group of swing voters to watch this year is the one he calls "maxed-out moms," the married women with children who were a big part of George W. Bush's re-election in 2004 but are now anxious and angry. What they want, he says, is relief from the squeeze of higher health-care bills, skyrocketing gas prices, credit-card debt, higher property taxes...
...know how the story ends. The idea that history is written by the victors has been wrongly credited to Winston Churchill, but he did say, "If you are going through hell, keep going." But you wonder whether years from now--5? 10? 50?--there will come a day when the victors actually know that they've won, that the battle is over and they can set about the writing. And whether even then, we will be sure that we have got the story right...