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...imaginative novels, he has subverted language, shuffled genres and generally had mucho fun - as in his 1992 "autobiography" of Marilyn Monroe. A mustachioed Asturias-born academic, he studied philosophy in Madrid and New York City and taught literature in Madrid and the U.S. Blood on the Saddle is your basic science-fiction-detective-western-literary romance, peppered with comic detail like a lowlife informant with a sideline in purloined celebrity X-rays ("A colonoscope of Ana Belén? It's yours. Plates of Julio Iglesias' prostate? You'll have 'em.") Reig's gumshoe has an unusual specialty: finding fictional...
...using this system, Charbonneau said he can ensure that students are staying up-to-date on the reading and mastering the basic principles of physics...
...casual disdain for the essentials of governance and our common public life" was right on point [Sept. 12]. Many government departments have seen budget cuts over the past few years, and we have arrived at the logical end. The Bush Administration can no longer provide security - that most basic part of the Hobbesian bargain in which power is ceded to a central authority in exchange for protection. To consign people to death because of bureaucratic ineptitude is one issue, but speaking as a political scientist, I believe failure to provide security for one of the largest ports...
...Vries set up a distinction between between long-term and short-term solutions. While infusing democracy into a cultural fabric—a long-range project—will produce lasting result, he said, the introduction of basic freedoms into traditionally terrorist regions will suppress the threat in the shorter term...
...root of the Cheerio Effect are buoyancy, surface tension, gravity, and the meniscus effect—basic physics concepts...