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...France and a winnerof the Prix Goncourt, but also the winnerof Elle Magazine’s Reader’s Prize.The CommonerBy Jonathan BurnhamSchwartzOut NowNan A. TaleseNothing Drops in ‘Before It Falls’When authors, editors, publishers, and their marketing minions conveneto discuss what shall adorn their precious new creation, many questionsmust trouble them. “How do we seduce readers? Do we assume theycan’t actually read the title and need some symbolism? Or do we justput something on the cover so completely strange that they must immediatelybuy the book to find...
...cameras in hand—swarm a seated, stoic John Harvard. While the statue—the third most photographed in the United States—and its supposedly lucky golden toe act as the hub of tourist activity in Harvard Yard, other statues and paintings that adorn the Yard manage to attract little more than dust—and maybe a protective tarp or two. But both students and Harvard staff agree that their neglect is due less to student apathy than to a dearth of readily available information about these works.Tucked away near the sunken entrance to Pusey...
...Clinton field office feels posh by comparison. Set across two floors above a pizzeria, its carpeted waiting area is furnished with a glass coffee table and a leather couch. Mat-framed quotations from Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston adorn the walls. During lunchtime, a team of about two dozen volunteers worked the phones in the glow of a wall-mounted flat-panel TV. Here, too, a steely resolve is palpable. "There is an excitement in being able to participate in the democratic process," says Lynne Hertzog, a Clinton volunteer who spent two days canvassing door-to-door...
After hours of driving through southern Nepal, the Maoist cantonment proves remarkably easy to find. Red pennants adorn trees and street lamps along miles of dirt road that winds through rice paddies and fields of yellow mustard, ending by a sprawl of ramshackle enclosures and wood huts. There's little sign of military menace as goats and pigs loll around on grass knolls - that's before we near the sandbags of an outer bunker where a young woman in fatigues, who appears to be of school-going age, turns her machine gun in our direction and fixes us with...
...collected our most precious artisanal creations. Carefully crafted gummy bears would serve as the line of saints that flank the facade of our cathedral. Pull ‘n’ Peel Twizzlers would form delicate tracery, and peppermints would substitute for portholes. Hershey’s Kisses would adorn the tops of our tallest towers. And spice drops would comprise Notre-Dame’s trademark rose windows. After centuries away, indulgence would finally return to the Church.At first, setbacks threatened to foil our quest. Indeed, the very cardboard foundation upon which we began our construction was unsteady...