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...just the transfer of power that makes this election so interesting. It's also its sheer unpredictability. "While things look O.K. now, I don't know where it's going." a G.O.P. insider tells TIME. "Sometime in October it's going to break one way or the other. I feel it in my gut." The number of extraordinarily close races this year is adding to the suspense. In the Senate, races in Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, South Dakota and Texas could turn on a couple of percentage points...
...sentence into a romance novel.) Michael Chabon, who won the Pulitzer Prize last year for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, is a novelist who can fashion an elegant grownup story as if it were a piece of soft aluminum. But the opportunity to plunge into the burdleburple of sheer fantasy is one reason he wrote Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax; 500 pages), the kind of book that features a motherly Sasquatch, some intrepid kids, numerous giants and "werefoxes," and several cliff-hanger baseball games on which the fate of the whole world just happens to hinge, plus a giant, prognosticating clam...
...been six years since Fight Club, his first novel, made him a cult figure. It's been one year since Choke made him a best seller. But Chuck Palahniuk is still inconsolable. The sheer, emasculating plenty of bourgeois life, all that stuff you can buy--it still sends him into an angry funk. In his new book he is also consumed by a world burdened with radio personalities, invasive kudzu, tormented anchovies and boring, phony jobs. There are writers who have a signature mood. What Palahniuk has is a signature posture: recoil...
Whether it was due to the Ivy rivalry, or just a sheer will to get back on the winning track, the Harvard field hockey team came out of the gates firing on all cylinders versus Yale on Saturday...
...seems to me that Harvard has long been more concerned with getting a (token) female voice at the table (or on the gate) and less concerned about hearing it all the way out. I’m not sure whether Anne Bradstreet’s misconstrued words exemplify sheer ignorance or willful revisionism, but in either case, her words remain. They are there to greet 1,600 new Harvard students, and they are there to remind us that Harvard has yet to truly put a spotlight on women...