(Disclaimer: Spoilers related to the Philip Roth novel Indignation ahead.) Oct. 2, Philip Roth will jump readers to the end of his new novel Indignation. On WNYC, the writer will explain how, if you read to the end of his book, you find that the narrator Marcus Messner is not, in fact, dead, but merely in the midst of a morphine hallucination of his own death. This contradicts both reviews of the book in the Times, one by Michiko Kakutani, the other in the Sunday Book Review. In so doing, it begs the question: Did those revi... lire la suite
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Contrary to earlier reports, Kasper at AppleInsider is now saying that the Mac mini has a long life ahead of it. Well, at least 12 months worth. According to his sources, "A small team of engineers have recently been tasked with gutting the diminutive desktop and applying fresh internals.
According to the New York Observer, someone posted a report of my death on Wikipedia. Cute.
A few days ago, Craig Covault wrote an article for Aviation Week claiming that the Mars Phoenix lander didn’t just find ice - it had discovered "potential for life" on Mars and that the White House was briefed about it: They have discovered water on Mars for the third or fourth time," one senior Mars scientists [.
The "interview with Lou Dobbs" Stephen Colbert carried out last night as his own Spanish-speaking alter ego? It was edited together from a year-old Dobbs interview. Appropriate ex post facto updates.
Is the Drudge Report shrinking? One blog thinks so, and cites Alexa data — by far the most inaccurate of the website-measurement sites — to prove it. Is Drudge shrinking? No, but it also isn't growing as fast as some other sites, including the 3-year old Huffington Post. HuffPo has certainly grown its readership, recently passing 3 million unique visitors per month.
Psystar, the Florida-based maker of computers which can run Apple's OS X operating system, has hired Carr & Ferrell, a Palo Alto-based law firm, to respond to lawsuits from the (official) Mac manufacturer. The firm previously managed to squeeze a settlement from Apple on behalf of its client Burst, a video-streaming technology developer.
Barclays Reports $3.1 Billion Write-Down for 2007
Lehman Reports $2.8 Billion Loss
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is dropping out of the presidential race, following his fourth place finish in the New Hampshire primary, according to sources familiar with the decision. Mr. Richardson won just over 4 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, a week after a similar showing in the Iowa caucuses.
Disclaimer: Spoilers related to the Philip Roth novel Indignation ahead. Oct. Philip Roth will jump readers to the end of his new novel Indignation. On WNYC, the writer will explain how, if you read to the end of his book, you find that the narrator Marcus Messner is not, in fact, dead, but merely in the midst of a morphine hallucination of his own death.
Whoop De Damn ‘Doh : DC Says Reports Of His Bum Ticker Are Greatly Exaggerated Posted in Medical Science, Sports Journalism, Basketball at 11: pm by GC On Friday, the New York Post’s Peter Vecsey reported that former Syracuse / longtime NBA power forward Derrick Coleman was in dire need of a heart transplant.
The NY Times’ Kiss Of Death To McCain
In the best tradition of Mark Twain, Senator John McCain spent much of the weekend declaring that rumors of his campaign's demise have been “greatly exaggerated. On NBC's “Meet the Press” he compared himself to the famous Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne, who was said to have rallied his team with the line, “Win one for the Gipper.
Stuart Rothenberg on the aftermath of the 2008 election: Some will predict the end of the GOP. Others will merely consign it to minority party status for years because of demographic changes. I know that this will happen because I've seen it before: each time a party has suffered big losses, frustration boils over.
While the rumors of the CW's demise haven't quite been greatly exaggerated, they're looking a little premature this morning as news of the network's upfront success trickles out. Amid panic over plunging ratings and the looming ouster of boss Dawn Ostroff, the House of Gossip Girl apparently wrapped up its advance sales with as much as $370 million — about half of last year's numbers but not half-bad under the circumstances.
Following up on Bill Kristol's New York Times column yesterday, there are further reports in the New York Times and the New York Sun on the possibility of McCain 2000 guru Mike Murphy joining this year's campaign. Adam Nagourney reports in the Times: Mr. McCain has told two friends in recent weeks that that he would like Mr.
Filed under: Twisted TalesSpinner. com: Howard Tate's fans thought he was dead. Back in the day, the singer's stone soul nuggets had been covered by Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, among others, so the assumption that Tate, too, had made his way to rock 'n' roll heaven was perhaps.
We had a dream last night in which Mark Twain told us, “Reports of the death of securities fraud class-actions are greatly exaggerated. And then, funnily enough, we read about a couple of studies in the papers this morning — here and here – that echoed Mr. Twain’s remark:
Yesterday, I posted a quiz asking what my wife Jeannette’s grandma has in common with Mark Twain. The answer is that she, like Twain, had her obituary published while she was still alive. Jeannette’s grandma is named Anne Hathaway. At age 92, she is still going strong. Just a few years ago, she traveled from Orono, Maine to Slovenia for the wedding of one of the University of Maine’s star hockey players.
U. S. Elections DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images John McCain defeated Mitt Romney in the Republican primary in Florida, where Hillary Clinton won a symbolic vote since her campaign rivals did not contest the state. Rumor has it one-time front-runner Rudy Giuliani will drop out and endorse McCain today.