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...breathtakingly preppy Eastern private school. To the surprise of many, not least its publisher and its author, Prep spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. Barely 1 1/2 years later, Sittenfeld, 30, put out a new novel: The Man of My Dreams. If you're wondering how she managed to produce it so rapidly, it turns out she wrote most of Man of My Dreams at the same time as Prep - "There came this point where it was almost like dating two different people," she says. There's certainly a sibling resemblance between the two novels...
...Peace at Gettysburg” near the fields. She poised on one foot atop a monument. Clutched by her side was an olive branch. But in her upraised hand, she held a sword. When I hope for peace in Iraq, I wonder what I’m really asking for.Lois E. Beckett ’09, a Crimson news editor, is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. She is interning for the Reading Eagle Newspaper, and in her free time, reading newspapers with her pet, which is, you would guess, an eagle...
...based on the true life events” of these men, it’s hard to say what actually happened and what’s Hollywood fiction, but the moment fireballs go whizzing past Jimeno’s face (against gravity, no less), I begin to wonder how many liberties Berloff took with her script...
...performances generally stay within the realm of plausible reality, but they are upstaged by the intense and believable portrayals of their wives, Donna McLoughlin (Maria Bello) and Allison Jimeno (Maggie Gyllenhaal). The film’s sense of anguish comes from scenes of uncertain waiting, where these women wonder if their husbands met the same fate as hundreds of other rescue workers when the towers collapsed...
...blistering afternoon sun beats down, the fishermen of Garrucha (pop. 8,000) pull their boats into the harbor with the day's catch, and gather in a café on the dockside. Over coffee they talk for hours. "Fuel prices have risen, and fish prices are really low. We wonder if it is worth it anymore," says Juan Cervantes, 55, who began fishing on his father's boat at age 14, married a local girl at 17, and supported their four children by hauling fish from the Mediterranean. "My father fished. My grandfather fished. Many generations before them fished," says...