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...death in Nthandire has been overwhelming in recent years. The grandmothers whom we meet are guardians for their orphaned grandchildren. The margin of survival is extraordinarily narrow; sometimes it closes entirely. One woman we meet in front of her mud hut has 15 orphaned grandchildren. Her small farm plot, a little more than an acre in all, would be too small to feed her family even if the rains had been plentiful. The soil nutrients have been depleted so significantly in this part of Malawi that crop yields reach only about a half-ton per acre, about one-third...
...Some plot points are never adequately explained: how did Constantine return from hell the first time? When and how did Satan have a son? Characters’ motivations are equally murky—Gabriel, for example, comes off as part saint, part sadist, and we’re left guessing whether the archangel cares about humanity...
...fact, his characters often don’t seem human at all: their dialogue is somewhat unrealistic and at times robotic. But the plot is intriguing—and Cruikshank keeps his reader guessing right up until the very...
...You’re sober, buddy. “Pound a beer every time someone loses their virginity?” Thanks a lot Zach, you huge pussy. We made up a new game for Season 2 in which you drink every time there is a gimmicky plot twist, a character who acts despicably out of character, or Lindsay plays her stupid oboe. Needless to say, we got blackout...
...deliberately drummed up charges of racism against himself so that he could come out of the controversy looking like a defender of academic freedom. Wiener suggests that The Crimson played a supporting role in this nefarious scheme by hyping up the allegations against Thernstrom. And according to Thernstrom, the plot paid dividends in 2002, when President Bush appointed the “neocon hero” Thernstrom to serve on the National Council on the Humanities...