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Why single out Bonds for drug use?, In a nation that runs on Prozac and Viagra slugger is accused of doing what many Americans do at home
The reason, of course, is that [Barry Bonds] is widely believed to have achieved his latest feats through foul means, turning to steroids to convert his lean, fleet figure into a bulked-up phenomenon that looks like an ad from Cyborg Today. Bonds may not be stripped of his records, as sprinter Ben Johnson was of his gold medal in the 1988 Olympics, but many say his name should be attended by an asterisk. [Babe Ruth] had nothing to help him toward 714 home runs but alcohol and philandering. At just the time that Bonds began his latest run on history, 19- year-old Kaavya Viswanathan was rivaling him by compressing a career's worth of headlines into a few weeks. At the beginning of April, the Harvard sophomore was in all the papers for receiving a reported $500,000 advance for her debut novel, \"How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,\" about an academically pressured young woman who decides to round herself out. By this month she was in the same papers when it was revealed that phrase after phrase from the wonder girl's novel were taken from another source. Opal Mehta got a new life, it seemed, by purloining someone else's.
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Autumn light : season of fire and farewells
\"For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan ... When his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold onto the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying ... [He] leads us through the year following his father-in-law's death, introducing us to the people who populate his days: his ailing mother-in-law, who often forgets that her husband has died; his absent brother-in-law, who severed ties with his family years ago but to whom Hiroko still writes letters; and the men and women in his ping pong club, who, many years his senior, traverse their autumn years in different ways\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Shunned Man of Peace
More than that, the Chinese have come close to destroying an entire culture. When I revisited Tibet last fall, monks were under house arrest, tanks rumbled down the main street of Lhasa and soldiers with AK-47's manned the rooftops around the holiest temple in Tibet. China still uses the area as a site for one-third of its nuclear missile force and 300,000 of its soldiers. (The [Dalai Lama], by comparison, has suggested that Tibet be turned into a \"zone of peace.\") Thirty-one years ago, the International Commission of Jurists was already referring to the situation in Tibet as a \"genocide.\" Yet as the world basks in its successful efforts to liberate Kuwait and rises up in sympathy for the freedom-lovers of the Baltic states, Tibet is all too often left out of our geopolitical equations. The Nobel Prize winner has long been denied an official voice. And the Year of Tibet, a festival of cultural pride, threatens to become an elegy in advance, a requiem for a culture we could have saved but didn't.
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Falling into place : a story of love, Poland, and the making of a travel writer
\"Falling into Place: A Memoir of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer is a coming-of-age story tied to a historic moment, the defining one of the second half of the twentieth century in Eastern Europe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Switch off to be truly connected PICO IYER
Our wired world with all its blinking machines is depriving us of what we need most -- the time and space to think. ABOUT a year ago, I flew to...
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The English patient
During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something \"she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in\"... the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions.
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