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While Pat, his adoring and self-sacrificing wife of 40 years, was on her deathbed, V.S. Naipaul was zipping around Pakistan with a new, much younger companion, angry, as she later reported, that his wife "was not dying fast enough because he wanted to carry on with his life." The day after Pat's cremation, he brought the younger woman into their home to be his second wife. "Would you say you have had a happy life?" the Nobel-winning novelist records asking Pat in his diary. "No direct answer," he writes. "It was perhaps my own fault," comes...
...important reason Bush has changed his mind, say Floridians who know the committed conservative, is that he fears last month's election calamity could dilute the ideological purity of the Republican Party. In an interview this week with Newsmax.com, Bush, 55, the outgoing President's younger brother, warned the GOP against becoming "Democrat lite. We can't just 'get along.'" Despite his disdain for Washington, the Senate would at least "give Jeb a bully pulpit," says a friend. That could help him keep his party from falling too far into the centrist, bipartisan hands of new Republican leaders like...
...familiar refrain: most of his family fled to Tampa when Fidel Castro stole their lands. So was he--or his family in Florida--waiting to take the land back, to evict those who live there now? "No," he said, "we're all tired of thinking about fighting." His younger relatives in Florida have forgotten to be angry. More and more Cubans are looking for common ground...
...outstanding appointments.” “The culture where they come from is highly interdisciplinary,” said Venky, who worked with Hu and Clarke while he was still in California. “I think they’re going to be wonderful for our younger faculty as role models.” Hu’s research focuses on nanophotonics and using biological processes to “craft new materials onto old techniques.” “When you confine light to nanostructure dimensions and create artificial optical environments for the photons...
...originators of the pastry shell, which they made by combining water and flour. The wealthy Romans used many different kinds of meats - even mussels and other types of seafood - in their pies. Meat pies were also often part of Roman dessert courses, or secundae mensea. Cato the Younger recorded the popularity of this sweet course, and a cheesecake-like dish called Placenta, in his treatise De Agricultura...