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The victim was Primo Gerardo Caceres, 45, the former mayor of a provincial town. He was one of at least 46 people who have been killed by police after hours since the curfew was imposed in mid-January in an attempt to control El Salvador's guerrilla war. Most...
Sylvie glides effortlessly into ever more erratic behavior. She spends mesmerized hours staring into the lake that claimed her father and sister. She studies the local freightyard and checks on the hobos and transients riding through. The girls find her one day asleep on a bench near the center of...
Darkness fell as the heavies cruised across the finish line, in first place of course (death, taxes, and the good Harvard crew teams are the only certain things), and in a sudden epiphany, the ostensible absurdity of working so long and so hard for a fleeting instant of victory made...
But we go deeper and darker up this river that snakes through the jungle like a bird--the "silly little bird" of Heart of Darkness--trailing like a serpent. Mahler's dense harmonic texture surrounds the flow, but does not stagnate it. Joseph Conrad, a riverboat man himself, especially in...
5. Goodbye, Darkness, Manchester (8)