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...under the pretense of a conventional plot whose conventions, either totally diminish or, like in Beckett, become so absurd as to be rendered superfluous. The narrative perspective alternates fluidly between its three protagonists: Gaspar Heredia, a Mexican night watchman at a camp ground in the Spanish coastal town of Z; Remo Morán, a Chilean novelist running several businesses in the town; and Enric Rosquelles, a deputy to the mayor of Z. The seemingly tenuous connections between the three men wind progressively tighter around a pair of vagrant women and a beautiful Spanish figure skater. A voracious reader...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bolaño’s Quiet Terror | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...April, Michael T. Henderson ’11 and Tom Z. Wang ’11 appeared to be headed for every Harvard student’s nightmare: a summer unmarked by resume-building activities...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Health Across the Hemispheres | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...year in medicine 2008: from A to Z...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Slams Semenya's Gender Test | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...college athletes in the U.S. from 1983 to 1993 resulted in an annual death rate as low as in the Italian ECG screening program - although some cardiologists have disputed the methodology of the study that examined the U.S. screening program. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From A to Z...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudden Cardiac Death: Should Young Athletes Be Screened? | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

Back in 2003, while Jay-Z was busy planning his retirement party at Madison Square Garden, critics and fans alike were sharing a knowing smirk and gathering on forums to place bets on the release date of his inevitable comeback album. Surely the Bob Dylan of hip-hop wouldn’t be able to stay away from the studio for long before whipping up another street-lauded aural epic of ghetto American dreams. Six years later, the former Marcy Projects hustler has confirmed these suspicions with three post-retirement studio releases and a smattering of collaborations and compilations...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jay-Z | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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