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...contradictory aspect of the work is its overt attempt to win the reader’s time, attention, praise, and awe—a goal at which it succeeds beautifully. As the author himself describes it, “This will be the novel that’s thrown violently to the floor most often, and avidly taken up again just as often. What author can boast of that?” The novel is written in a unique form, consisting of dialogues between the author and his readers, which take place over a series of prologues...
...visa ban has certainly thrown investments in Libya's booming oil industry into question. When TIME visited Libya's major natural gas facility on Tuesday - it pipes gas to Italy under the Mediterranean - the company's Italian general manager, from the Italian energy company ENI, was not there. He was stuck in Europe, with no visa to return...
...start as a Playboy model was the second of four daughters of a steel-mill-foreman father and courtroom-custodian mother. She attended Mother McAuley High School. "It can be hard for the cute girl," she recalls. "I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire." To earn money for college - she studied nursing at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - she sent her photos to Playboy and was Miss October and eventually Playmate of the Year in 1994. Her subsequent career as a comedian...
...decision to declare sites in the Arab cities of Hebron and Bethlehem Jewish historical landmarks seemed a provocation intended to cause the sort of mass violence that has destroyed the hopes of responsible Palestinians in the past. Fayyad's progress is as fragile as plate glass; the next rock thrown could shatter it. (See TIME's photo-essay "Life in the West Bank Settlements...
...schools between 2001 and 2006, many of those low performing. Parents, teachers and neighborhood activists erupted in outrage with each closing, claiming that the system was giving up on their kids, disrespecting teachers and dismantling an integral part of the community. Violence flared when students from rival neighborhoods were thrown together. After a few years, Duncan switched tacks, keeping kids in their local schools but replacing teachers and staff. (See the best pictures...