A Familiar Tale of a Man Losing Himself in the Wild
While David Guterson has created an engaging enough voice for his narrator, Neil Countryman, much of his novel feels derivative and overly familiar.
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pianomania: CD Reviews (The Straits Times, February 2015)
CD Reviews (The Straits Times, February 2015). SOLOS and DUOS. MARTHA ARGERICH, Piano et al. EMI Classics 94044 2 (6CDs) / *****. In the early 1980s, the great Argentina-born pianist Martha Argerich stopped giving��.
pianomania: CD Reviews (The Straits Times, March 2015)
CD Reviews (The Straits Times, March 2015). BRUCKNER Symphony No.9. Lucerne Festival Orchestra. CLAUDIO ABBADO. Deutsche Grammophon 479 3441 / *****. It seems ironic that Italian conductor Claudio Abbados��.
Filipino National and Singaporean Malay face charges of.
In a separate case about the same childrens home, Straits Times Review found out that the head and Divisional Manager of Pertapis Childrens Home possess a fake doctorate issued by a known degree mill, Washington��.
Theatre review: Asylum Theatres The 39 Steps is a delightful climb
In Asylum Theatres second outing, The 39 Steps, Englishman Richard Hannay finds himself getting much more than he bargained for when a visit to the theatre somehow morphs into a cross-country espionage mission, complete with high speed train chases .
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Indonesia urges Singapore to review direct recruitment system for Indonesian.
In this file photograph taken on January 27, 2014, an Indonesian maid learns to fix a bed in Jakarta during a class for a group of maids undergoing training at a private recruitment agency deploying maids to foreign countries. -- PHOTO: AFP .
Amos Yee wants bail conditions reviewed as he claims they amount to a gag order
SINGAPORE - A bail review for teenage blogger Amos Yee will be heard on Wednesday morning at the High Court. Yees lawyer Alfred Dodwell told The Straits Times that his 16-year-old client will be challenging the conditions of his bail, which do not.
Give maids a weekly day off: Mums and Maids | Straits.
Straits Times Review. The Independent News Site. However, it has become a reality that Singaporean children spend more time with their maids than with their parents because of a dual income family is necessary to keep up with the ever increasing cost of living. Singaporean parents have no choice but to spend more time at work. But then again, is it fair to deny maids a day off a week? Singapore is already nowhere near a first world society when it comes to the��.
SPH weighs legal action against STRAITS TIMES REVIEW | The.
Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) has announced yesterday (6 May) that it is considering all options, including legal recourse, against new website Straits Times Review (STR) for using the name of its flagship newspaper, The��.
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THE oldest by far of all our first families should gather their clans into a society. It might tie called the S.D.S.M. The initials, of course, would stand for Sons and Daughters of the Siberian Migration, and the members would be the American Indians whose ancestors, according to many authorities, came to this country from Siberia by way of the Bering Straits town and country houses are scattered over America.. Macgregor, Frances C; Twentieth Century Indians
Movie review: The Water Diviner packs in too much
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THE Civil War, Scott Fitzgerald once said, is always the broken link in our history. How that link was broken is the subject of Arnold Whitridges hard-hitting and illuminating new book, No Compromise!* This is a good introduction to the march of hundred-year Civil War anniversaries that is already under way.. Whitridge, A: No Compromise! The Story of the Fan Fanatics Who Paved the Way to the Civil War
He Inspired the Extremes; SO NOBLE A CAPTAIN: The Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan. By Charles McKew Parr. Illustrated. 423 pp. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. $6.
ONE of the hundred-odd survivors of Ferdinand Magellans voyage around the world was a Venetian named Don Antonio Lombardo. Lombardo kept a diary which is the prime source for material on the great voyage itself. He was by Magellans side when the Captain General was killed in a senseless skirmish in the Philippines.. Parr, C M: So Noble a Captain: The Life and Times of Ferdinand Magellan
workers laid off in 2014; half were PMETs: Manpower Ministry
Compared to full time workers where 3.6% more are retrenched, more contract workers are given early release by 96.9% between 2013 and 2014. 5) Residents are more likely to be made redundant than Non-Resident��.
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another 6 cases of workers in singapore with dubious degrees
Straits Times Review. The Independent News Site. It makes all of us who are studying at NUS and NTU look like fools for wasting so much time. Right after he got his ���masters degree���, he jumped ship from Malaysia to��.
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PAUL HORGANS A Distant Trumpet is a first-rate historical novel about the United States Cavalry, the Apache wars in Arizona in the Eighteen Eighties and the eternally mystifying, fascinating and dramatic complexities of human character. Mr. Horgan, who has lived most of his life in the Southwest, knows that region and its spectacular past as few men do.. Horgan, P: A Distant trumpet
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THIS morning Pierre van Paassen has a new book explaining, among other things, why Rudolf Hess climbed into an airplane and flew off to Scotland last May. Where Mr. van Paassen got his information remains a mystery, but there are many mysteries in That Day Alone.*. Paassen, Pierre van; That Day Alone
BREAKING: FORMER PRESIDENT S R NATHAN GETS A.
Straits Times Review. The Independent News Site. Menu. Skip to content. Home �� High Profile Blogs �� Featured. BREAKING: FORMER PRESIDENT S R NATHAN GETS A STROKE. admin / 2 weeks ago Apr 22, 2015. According to the��.
Theatre review: Jeff Chens Descendants Of The Eunuch Admiral is deliciously.
It has almost always been interpreted in a hauntingly beautiful way, with its long poetic flights of fancy and dense, graphic metaphors. To continue reading, log in if you are a subscriber. LOG IN. Enjoy 2 weeks of unlimited digital access to The.
ROY NGERNG: I DID NOT SPEAK TO STRAITS TIMES AT.
Straits Times Review. The Independent News Site. However, another Singapore Press Holding-owned news media Stomp, still put up the same erroneous reporting as of published time. Stomp Facebook Screenshot.
Distilled From Water, Designer or Tap: High Anxiety
Elizabeth Royte uses the story of a face-off between a small town and a giant food conglomerate to look at the many issues at stake in the bottled water wars.
Concert review: Steven Isserlis and the SSO bring out all the shades of.
This Singapore Symphony Orchestra season has seen its share of gala concerts featuring celebrity soloists and with ticket prices to match. Although the renowned British cellist Steven Isserlis was not accorded gala status, his appearance in.
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FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY was a writer of genius, one of the great novelists of world literature. Once when his creditors were too close upon his heels for comfort he fled from his native Russia to exile in Germany. He lived on borrowed money, wrote begging letters to his friends and tried to ease his financial straits at the gambling tables of Baden-Baden.. Cournos, J(ed); Treasury of Russian Life and Rumor
Time to review primary school education - Straits Times.
[Straits Times] Time to review primary school education. OF LATE, many readers have aired concerns related to our education system. In addition, I would like to raise these questions: Are we cramming too much into the��.
ABOUT STRANGE COUNTRIES; SCENTED ISLES AND CORAL GARDENS. Torres Straits, German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies. By C.D. Mackellar. E.P. Dutton & Co.
Mr. Mackellars oddly named book is extremely entertaining -- 40 per cent. because the strange and savage countries which he writes about are in themselves interesting and 60 per cent. because Mr. Mackellars personality, as revealed in this volume, is delightful. Immensely proud of the fact that he is a Scotchman, he is perpetually striving to think tolerantly of those who have the misfortune to be of other birth, but he is not uniformly successful.
And You Thought Your Teenage Years Were Tough
In Those Who Wish Me Dead, a new Michael Koryta thriller with a fiery backdrop, a boy is on the run after witnessing a murder.. Janet Maslin reviews book Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta.
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. Bartlett, N: The Pearl Seekers
MAS will stick to twice-yearly Singdollar review: Tharman
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Former TRS editor sets up new website Straits Times Review
Checks showed that the new website, with the name Straits Times Review, was registered on Apr 18 and operates from domain name registrar Tucows Domains. TODAY understands the sites editor is blogger and systems engineer Alex Tan, a former editor .
singtel users demand compensations for service disruptions
Straits Times Review. The Independent News Site. As of published time, Singtel mobile services is still down and from the Facebook comments, it has been so for at least the past 7 hours since 10am. Many Singtel mobile��.
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Concert review: Three encores for drama queen Joyce DiDonato
Once in a long while, there comes a concert which so captivates its audience that people will be talking about it for a long time to come. This themed recital by American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, partnered by the Italian baroque ensemble Il Pomo .
Bad Apples and Blue Eyes: Shaking Loose Secrets From the Family Tree
Plot twists in Lauren Groff’s book are certainly intriguing enough to captivate readers. The trouble with “The Monsters of Templeton” is that its complications seem nonstop.
Movie review: Asian power cast race to foil bomb plot in Helios
The Helios cast include (from left) Wang Xueqi, Jacky Cheung, Nick Cheung, Choi Si Won and Ji Jin Hee. -- PHOTO: GOLDEN VILLAGE PICTURES. - PHOTOS: GOLDEN VILLAGE PICTURES. The Helios cast include (from left) Wang Xueqi, Jacky Cheung, .
The week in review: Singtel apologises to rivals for smear.
The week in review: Singtel apologises to rivals for smear campaign | Straits Times rejects LKY tribute ads | Wieden: creatives are too entitled | Cannes or SWSX? | HSBC celebrates 150th birthday | Why Google Glass failed.
SPH exploring options, including legal recourse, against STRAITS TIMES REVIEW site
Blogger and former political candidate Alex Tan, who runs the Straits Times Review website, which has nothing to do with The Straits Times. Singapore Press Holdings is exploring all options, including legal recourse, against the website that borrows.
Concert review: Young pianist Clarence Lees recital fuses beauty and risk-taking
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Mafiosi and Killer in the Florida Sun
TROPICAL DEPRESSION By Laurence Shames 293 pages. Hyperion. $21.95.
Concert review: Guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela get crowd on their feet.
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Surviving in Germany, the Wrong Type at the Wrong Time
AN UNDERGROUND LIFE The Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin By Gad Beck Written with Frank Heibert. Translated by Allison Brown. Illustrated. 165 pages. The University of Wisconsin Press. $24.95. The subtitle of An Underground Life: The Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin calls to mind the old story, probably apocryphal, about the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., who was asked on a golf course what his handicap was and replied to the effect that he was a Jewish African-American with only one eye; Whats yours? Except that instead of being black and partly blind, Gad Beck was a homosexual and a Jew at a time and place particularly intolerant of such people.
STRAITS TIMES REVIEW Editor Identified!! Still Think You Can.
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Rarity Among Great Writers: A Genuinely Happy Man
V.S. Pritchett A Working Life By Jeremy Treglown 334 pages. Random House. $25.95. For nearly all of his very long life and career, V.S. Pritchett, the novelist, short-story writer and critic, was a man in the middle. Like Charles Dickens and H.G. Wells before him, he came from the English lower middle class -- my country, he once called it -- and found his best material there. In politics, he took a humane position somewhere to the right of the left and to the left of the right. In his personal life, he was a devoted but not very faithful husband. He was too famous to be a cult writer, but never popular enough to escape the constant drudgery of reviewing, travel writing and other miscellaneous literary journalism. Drudgery, however, suited Victor Sawdon Pritchett, or V.S.P., for short. He thrived on it, as Jeremy Treglown makes clear in his concise, rather dutiful biography, appropriately subtitled A Working Life. Deadline and financial pressures simply reinforced Sir Victors ferocious work ethic and drew the best from his quicksilver sensibility.. William Grimes reviews book V S Pritchett: A Working Life by Jeremy Treglown; photo (M)
Time to review U-23 teams performance - Straits Times.
[Straits Times] Time to review U-23 teams performance. THE Singapore U-23 football team suffered yet another loss when they fell to the Cambodian U-22 team recently (Football: Nine-man Singapore U-23 team suffer shock��.
Theatre review: Wild Rices Public Enemy hits the mark
This is the second time in just over a year that an adaptation of the 19th-century Norwegian masters An Enemy Of The People has been staged here. Wild Rice has opted to stage Scottish playwright David Harrowers 2013 version of the play, Public Enemy, .
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EDWIN WAY TEALE speaks kindly of plants, brilliantly of bugs, and tells wonderful stories about beasts, men and birds. He is a distinguished naturalist. His wildlife photographs are works of art. His books are a pleasure to read. The latest and best is Days Without Time,* a fine portfolio bulging with twelve dozen pictures and forays ranging from the Span ish moss of the Confederacy to the owls of the Arctic tundra.. Teale, E W: Days Without Time
Movie review: Big Game is a Hollywood adventure with unusual Finnish elements
At the same time, the boys fantasy adventure aspect of the story takes off, complete with aerial stunts and underwater exploits and much hand-wringing from hapless Pentagon officials. Without the unusual Finnish elements, this would have been a far.
Books of The Times
IT is a pleasure to have one of the finest stories by Ivan Turgenev (1818-83) in David Magarshacks fresh, lively new translation. This is a tale of sacred and profane love in a wildly romantic era. Many authors, generally speaking, could, and did -- and, no doubt, still will -- tell it. But none so well as Turgenev.. Turgenev, I: The Torrents of Spring (D Magarshack tr)
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. Thurber, Jas; My World--and Welcome to It
Car review: First Lexus turbo model is supremely refined
PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER TAN; The new Lexus NX200t F Sport comes with digital meters that measure cool stuff such as. http://www.straitstimes.com/sites/straitstimes.com/files/20150502/ST_20150502_CTNX_1280960e.jpg. Lexus NX200t F Sport. -- PHOTO: .