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What hardly anyone expected was Accordion Crimes (Scribner; 381 pages; $25), a book that is, in at least one crucial respect, the antithesis of The Shipping News. Accordion Crimes has no central character, unless that term is stretched to include a 19-button green accordion that is brought by its Sicilian maker to New Orleans in the early 1890s. This instrument spends roughly the next 100 years--and the entire novel--drifting haphazardly into the possession of different people or, more precisely, members of different immigrant groups struggling to establish themselves in the U.S. After the accordion maker (who, somewhat...
...There is no delete button for bigotry," he said. "We will be unable to build walls high enough or schools private enough to escape this cancer in our midst...
...only recognize laws passed by a legislature, not made up by courts," Kevorkian said in Michigan, thus pushing button No. 1, distrust of the legal system. Since a large body of common law evolved in court, this is tantamount to throwing out half the book before the show even begins. Button No. 2 and the clincher at the Michigan trial was a simple video of Kevorkian's latest subjects begging to be allowed to die. Just reading their words into the record might not have done the trick, and screams of pain could have been counterproductive. But the sight...
With the arrival of every John Grisham thriller comes the inevitable question: What exceedingly bankable, cute-as-a-button superstar will take on the role of beleaguered but principled defense counsel, first-year associate or eager law student in sweaty peril? In July the film version of Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, arrives in movie theaters with Sandra Bullock. Since movie versions of The Firm (Tom Cruise), The Client (Susan Sarandon) and The Pelican Brief (Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington) have cumulatively grossed close to $600 million worldwide, adaptations of the rest of the canon...
...related topic, the lack of blue-light emergency phones outside the Yard is appalling. True, there is an emergency button on every Centrex phone, but these phones are only located near house entrances. What does a student who is walking home to the Quad do if she needs help near the Cambridge Commons? Harvard should install blue-light phones all over campus...