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...officials say the average detainee remains held for 10 to 12 months. Detainees can take classes in English, Arabic, math and other subjects at the compounds, which U.S. officials say still have plenty of room for more inmates as the surge continues...
...dust has settled. The last fatality was in February when a 38-year-old police officer, Filippo Raciti, was killed by a teenage fan in Catania during rioting at the stadium in the Sicilian city. After the death, there was much talk of applying the same techniques that the English Premier League have used to stamp out violence, with more control by stewards in the stadium and swifter punishments such as enforcing legal sentences and banning people from attending games. There are some signs that clashes have been reduced, as figures released by the government confirm. Still, the basic dynamic...
...Picture Perfect” features a flurry of camera snaps and oohs and ahhs before Brown opens the song with, “You might have seen her on every cover of every magazine / But can’t nobody get her but me.” Despite the English errors and laughable lyrics, the songs don’t detract from the album. With hip and infectious beats, easily-relatable subject matter, and a Michael-esque singing voice that could make any teenage girl melt, “Exclusive” is bound to be a hit record...
Would that all of us English concentrators could put our degrees to the use that Alex Ross ’90 has. His new book “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century” gives a revolutionary clarity to the history of classical music in America, and shows the world that a senior thesis on James Joyce can indeed pay real-world dividends.A wise teaching fellow once told me that the goal of analyzing literature is to do the opposite of the work itself: if the book is simple, use your argument to complicate...
...time to work [the plot] together into something very condensed. I felt I was taking the reader to the edge; I might have gone farther than I realised.” Though Høeg may have had a decade to write the novel, now available in English thanks to a translation by Nadia Christensen, we unfortunately do not have as much time to decode it. The concept of an implicit criticism of the fast-paced world of today through an intricate plot is meritorious, but neither Høeg’s plot, nor his characters, nor even...