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...subtitle suggests, the first half of Miracles of Life deals with Ballard's extraordinary childhood in war-torn Shanghai; the second is spent at the typewriter in the leafy west London suburb where the author has lived for the last 47 years. The journey from one to the other has been central to his life and his fiction. Readers of his 1984 novel Empire of the Sun - and the millions more who saw Steven Spielberg's film version of it - will recognize Ballard's descriptions of the deprivations he suffered at the Lunghua detention camp after the Japanese army overran...
...Front Runner's Fight Michael Grunwald concluded there is little evidence that John McCain's surge represents a Republican repudiation of George W. Bush or any element of conservatism [Feb. 18]. He couldn't be more wrong. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and James Dobson have spent the past decade telling us whom to vote for. The result has been the most base and incompetent Administration in the history of this country. And now these same gasbags are trying to tell us we're making a mistake in voting for McCain. Well, this is one Republican who has voted...
...like Camp Harvard, the Harvard-Yale pep rally, and the provocatively titled “Pimp Your Stein Club.” Given that Harvard students are not notoriously big concertgoers, it is these events that tend to engage the most people, and so this money is dollars well spent. While the CEB certainly has not chosen to be cash-strapped, they could handle their funds more wisely by polling undergraduates to see if they prefer hearing an affordable, “big-name” artist like Third Eye Blind or spending that same amount of money on several...
Ralph Nader has become the great tragicomic figure of American politics: tragic because he may have indirectly delivered the 2000 election to George W. Bush, who has worked tirelessly to oppose virtually everything Nader spent his life promoting, and comic because every four years, he seems to forget what happened last time and trot back out, blissfully unaware of the impacts (or lack thereof) of his previous attempts. And this image, in turn, has become the face of third party candidacies in America. Every time he runs, Nader further assures the voting public that independent candidates are benign, irrelevant eccentrics...
...native of Augusta, ME, Rollins spent her summer training with some of her teammates in Cambridge. They played four nights a week and worked hard in the gym to get into shape...