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Wrinn characterized the allegations against Harvard as “so far from the truth that they cannot go without response...
...ranking Brown first.” But ‘real life’ intervenes, as both Zhu and Encisco have found that environmental hazards need to be taken into wardrobe consideration, be it in the lab or out in the harsh Cambridge winter elements. One fashion truth that Zhu, Encisco, WWD, and FM can all agree upon: Cambridge’s puritanical cobblestones would be hell for any stiletto heeled Hester Prynne in search of another (scarlet...
...first playful about the deceptions this handsome quartet of characters commit while falling in love and climbing out of it. After all, as Alice declares, "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off." But if lying has a toxic residue, the truth can kill instantly. Larry, in interrogating Anna, casts off all pride to find the self-lacerating, the ultimate male truth. Was he better...
Moreover, comparison companies--those that failed to make a leap or, if they did, failed to sustain it--often tried to make themselves great with a big, hairy audacious merger or acquisition. It never worked. They failed to grasp the simple truth that while you can buy your way to growth, you cannot buy your way to greatness. Two big mediocrities joined together never make one great company...
Franco is not an implausible dictator, but he is exceptionally repugnant, and Tuck never makes clear what greater truth his repugnance conveys. As a result, The News from Paraguay remains a beautifully written but curiously cold and creepy novel. One wishes that it had not won the NBA, not because it has nothing to offer readers but because the award makes one expect something from it that it does not have: greatness. --By Lev Grossman