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...region greets him with a driving deluge the minute his car crosses into it, provoking an accident with Antoine Bailleul, one of the postal workers he'll be managing. It takes a disoriented Abrams awhile to realize Bailleul's Ch'ti speech isn't the result of a broken jaw - and even longer to acclimate himself to some of the area's unusual customs (such as breakfasting on toast smeared with pungent Maroilles cheese dunked into chicory-cut coffee). But soon Abram identifies the charms behind the quirky habits and speech, and finds himself forced to hide his contentment with...
...automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in Washington later this month. Jones captured a new pool record and an NCAA “B” qualifying time in the 100-yard butterfly, as did freshman Justin Davidson (100-yard breaststroke), bringing Harvard’s total of records broken for the weekend up to seven.“We really couldn’t have asked for a better performance out of our team,” Rathgeber said. “Top to bottom, we really swam with a lot of poise and determination.”Assistant...
...most beautiful is what is still unfinished / a sky filled with stars uncharted by astronomers / a sketch by Leonardo a song broken off from emotion / A pencil a brush suspended in the air”So Julia Hartwig’s “In Praise of the Unfinished” concludes, leaving her readers suspended in their own emotions. And yet this momentary captivity is liberating: while emotionally entangled, we achieve intellectual freedom by virtue of the poems. We continue on in our incomplete lives armed with the completing questions. Even at 85, Hartwig still discovers new mysteries...
...Lazarus, Dig!!!” is a triumph—quite possibly the band’s finest—a highly mature, surprisingly organic step in a promising new direction for an artist now in his fourth decade of music-making. Cave hasn’t broken away from the Bad Seeds’ traditions. On the contrary: the album sounds like a natural, albeit bold, progression from the supercharged “Abattoir Blues.” But it took an injection of sludge from the Grinderman project to catalyze the appropriate reaction. It’s more...
...Rice and Abbas both looked grim as they exited their afternoon meeting in Ramallah. A presidential adviser told TIME that Abbas had rebuffed Rice's pleas that he resume negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, broken off as the Palestinian death toll mounted during Israeli ground and air attacks in Gaza. Israel launched its operation in retaliation for a shower of long- and short-range rockets from Palestinian militants...