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...prim, reserved and historic counterpoint to the youthful, debauched Ritwik, Gilby is not entirely a success. The drive of her narrative is weak in comparison to the drama, passion and unpredictability of Ritwik's existence, and for much of A Life Apart, the links between her story line and that of her maker are tenuous, leaving the reader at a loss as to how these two interrelate. Only in the book's second half, when Ritwik is living in London illegally, working part-time as a male prostitute and looking after the elderly, incontinent Anne Cameron in exchange for free...
...While A Life Apart revolves around the past, the past is not the same as nostalgia. There is little romance or Proustian yearning here (although a childhood storybook fills Ritwik with "a strange longing"). But if Mukherjee is scathing about Ritwik's history in a city "that had leaped out of the pages of Dante and transposed east," he also refuses to extol Oxford as the site of Ritwik's apparent freedom. Ritwik ignores the university town's prettiness, fixating instead on the "s___-brown door" of the toilet cubicle he favors for his risky liaisons. And London, while offering...
...sees it differently. In leading one-fifth of the world's population toward greater prosperity, China is creating its own paradigm that borrows freely, but stands apart, from the East Asian model of development, let alone Western approaches. Therefore, foreign criticisms about poor progress in economic and political reforms do not apply. Moreover, Pax Americana in Asia has been an aberration in existence for only six decades. In contrast, in Beijing's view, the return of the Chinese civilization-state simply restores Asia's natural order...
Currier has traditionally set itself apart from the other Houses by “having far more spirit,” wrote Sami Majadla ’11, Currier House Committee chair, in an e-mailed statement. “We plan on keeping that tradition alive this year...
...impressive performance came as no surprise, considering that Maddox tore apart the Crimson to the tune of 14 points in the teams’ previous matchup last month...