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...driving a cab by day and performing at night. "I would sand the floors and put up these Sheetrock walls, and [he] would do the plumbing," she says. "And I'd tell Philip, 'You have to sign these pipes. You're going to be really famous.' He was like, 'Aw, shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathryn Bigelow: The Front Runner | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

When asked about his own reportedly paltry get-out-the-vote effort and McAuliffe's out-of-town endorsements, Deeds, in his usual aw-shucks persona, stammered out: "I can't rattle that stuff off the top of my head. There's another candidate that can do that. But I can tell you that I've had people working hard for weeks and for months ... You know the other night in Charlottesville, I had four former mayors and a vice mayor all making calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Dems (and McAuliffe) Buck Tradition in Virginia? | 6/9/2009 | See Source »

Malaysian writer Tash Aw Won a 2005 Whitbread Book Award for his debut offering The Harmony Silk Factory, and his follow-up does not disappoint. An unusually braided novel, Map of the Invisible World condenses the prolonged, troubled birth of an independent Indonesia into a complex drama of private relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aw-Inspiring | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...While Aw's prose remains as luminous as in his debut novel - evoking a wonderfully textured world of streets and shantytowns - there is greater emotional heft in this new work. The tender relationship of the brothers before they are separated, and their sundering, is told in a timed-release fashion, reaching an unbearably moving climax. If there is a sag in the middle of the novel brought about by a too expository account of Indonesian politics, it is more than redeemed by the way Aw debunks every expectation one has of the postcolonial novel: questions of identity and belonging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aw-Inspiring | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...Aw, shucks, flyby’s ego granted Doug’s group points for this response...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Battle of the Class of 2013 Facebook Groups | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

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