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...mansion.Meanwhile, characters are self-consciously shaking the foundations of their lives. When Inman runs into Conor outside Cutler’s home, it gives him the opportunity to start up an affair with former girlfriend Kathryn. Angela struggles to both sustain a relationship and keep a straight face in her creative nonfiction class, where she must hide her connection to Stuart. Walt Steckl wonders how to keep his recent trip to the courtroom from his dutiful and principled daughter. Each navigates his or her daily life with a hyperawareness of the eyes of others.After Mary’s assault...
...face of it, Twitter seems like a pretty neat idea. Twitter-ers post 140-character long “tweets” on anything they choose, a la Facebook’s status-update feature. They “follow” each other, so that a user’s followers can automatically see their posts on their main page. A commenting feature allows Twitter-ers to interact with tweets...
...pants were frayed and bits of gravel clung to the fabric, but she didn’t brush them clean or in any other way distract her focus from the figure kneeling on the opposite bank. The dark shape across the water grew elongated, also standing. They faced one another with the Feather River in between. In two or three more hours? they would kneel again and drink.”Among prose stylists, Denis Johnson has few living equals. His finest moments bristle with beauty and potential; words blossom inward toward the enigmatic center of the story, disclosing possibility...
...because they should not have to bear the heaviest burden of a crisis that they did not create. Layoffs devastate people’s lives and families, contributing to the economic crisis because people without jobs can no longer afford to pay for basic needs. The onus that we face is finding a way to make these unjust cuts unnecessary ones by seeking out other means of meeting Harvard’s new budgetary demands...
...that he is not wedded to its specific prescriptions. His proposal, for example, included a "public plan" - one that would set up a Medicare-like, government-run coverage option for the uninsured - that has become one of the most contentious issues in the debate thus far. But in the face of criticism that a government plan would have an unfair advantage over private insurance, Obama has indicated sympathy for that argument. "Private insurance plans might end up feeling overwhelmed," he said. "So I recognize that there's that concern. I think it's a serious one and a real...