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Behind the absorbing plot and images, Saramago crafts a profoundly cynical allegory for the condition of humanityand the fragility of the comforts we take forgranted. At the root of the story is not anexplanation for humanity's existence or diagrammeddirections on how to live virtuously: Saramago isnot constructing a sermon...
Instead, he will be operated on for a degenerating ankle condition during Thanksgiving break. Translation: Clemente will be out of action for the season.
"We've been without a raise for five years," one guard said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "And we don't get feedback from our own union."
His private life, meanwhile, was marked by tragedy. First his son died suddenly in his mid-20s, killed by a heart attack that struck without warning during the traditional May Day ceremonies. A few years later his wife died with equal suddenness, the victim, friends say, of the same inherited...
Your article "Beyond The Gender Myths" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 19] quotes an educator who imagines that a Utopia can be created in which "sexual stereotypes don't shape education." This assumes that gender influences on parents, teachers, peer groups, media and writers about the subject of education have disappeared and...