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...Belseys are an unlikely pair: Howard, a poor North London son-of-a-butcher who snagged a professorship by cutting up Rembrandt, is celebrating his 30th anniversary with Kiki, a black Floridian who escaped from her family’s servant legacy through inheritance and marriage. They made love for the first time, the two recall without irony, in Kiki’s New York walk-up, Howard’s white, gangly feet sticking out the fire escape...
...Howard is not all abstract words. He balances his sterile language by staging sensual, mid-life forays with thinner women, whose simple lives Smith seems to despise...
...carnality doesn’t redeem “On Beauty,” and her political message drowns out the story. Smith, like Howard, dwells on the theoretical, often for too long. In her ambition, she weighs down her novel with a little social commentary and a whole lot of rumination on the what it means to be black, and all the gradations thereof. There are the poseurs—like Levi, the youngest Belsey son, who hides an iPod under his class-erasing hoodie...
...total of 23. Azahari is allegedly Jemaah Islamiah's chief bombmaker, Nurdin its treasurer. No one has discounted their involvement this time. "We will hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice," President Yudhoyono said. But his earlier prediction is a grim one. October has just begun. --By Howard Chua-Eoan. Reported by Maria Bakkalapulo/Bali and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta
...docket may challenge new Chief Justice John Roberts' stated intent to pursue judicial modesty. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in former stripper ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S appeal to win part of the $1.6 billion fortune left by her late husband, Texas tycoon J. Howard Marshall, whom she wed in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89. Sure, the Justices may be a more prudish audience than Smith is used to, but then again, they do wear those silky robes...