Issue of January 12, 2009
7 articles in this issue.
Wendy Robards reviews the book, "The White Tiger," by Aravind Adiga.
The alliance has been made. The sworn enemies have negotiated a truce; a ritual gesture must now be offered, a symbolic melding of the two territories. The Masters have decreed what the symbol will be. Do they care what that ritual will do to the lives of certain individuals? Noooo ...
Let's do a word association: Yellow? Lemon. Sweet? Sugar. Winter? --- Lemonade!
A celebrity hero like Vlad can't just stay home and rest on his laurels -- no, this most noble of bloodhounds is taking his famous face to the Dog Show!
Crouched in a concrete pipe, with metal-jacketed slugs being fired at the rate of about 300 rounds per minute is not the most comfortable place in the world ...
Don't you just hate it when the worker at the next desk flumps down with two boxes of tissues, throat lozenges, cough syrup, a bottle of aspirin, and a sore red nose and says, "Yuck, I can't remember when I've been this sick! I was up all night coughing my guts out!" Ooo, so does Aser.