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...Ronaldo subplot that gave this tournament its real drama. At the age of 25, the former wUnderkind played in his second World Cup final, trying to make up for his near career-wrecking appearance in the World Cup 1998 finale against France. He suffered a seizure just before that match - allegedly brought on by a combination of pressure and injections to treat a dodgy knee - and played as if in a zombie-like trance. In subsequent years at the Italian club Inter Milan, Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, dogged by injury, never regained his sparkle or his reputation...
...certified wunderkind at 25, Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects?italics, capital letters, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries?and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...
...certified wunderkind at 25, Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects--italics, CAPITAL LETTERS, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries--and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...
...Wunderkind: Do you go to Harvard...
Clinton spoke millions of words--must he go three for three with quotes that trite? If anyone could right the score, Klein would be the guy. Sure, there was the slippery, glib Southern pol inside Bill Clinton, but there was also the thoughtful, work-till-the-last-dog-dies wunderkind. As the first reporter to swoon over the Governor from Arkansas (no one fell harder, save perhaps the New Yorker's Sidney Blumenthal, who fell so hard he ended up inside the Administration), Klein seemed the most famously disappointed whenever the good Clinton gave way to the bad. Klein expressed...