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Miriam Toewss Oscars second exposes a sophisticated relationship along with her Mennonite hometown
East of Winnipeg, a billboard on the Trans Canada Freeway marks the turnoff to Steinbach, Man., hometown of writer Miriam Toews. Pictures in Steinbach by Shannon VanRaes/The Globe and Mail Miriam Toewss phrases forged an extended shadow over Steinbach, even 20 years on. Thats the factor about this city theres no room for in between, she wrote in A Sophisticated Kindness of the Manitoba metropolis she grew up in. Youre in or youre out. Youre good or youre dangerous. Truly, superb or very dangerous. Or superb at being very dangerous with out being detected. The novel, revealed 20 years in the past, explored the authors Mennonite roots. It shot Ms.…
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The difficult legacy of Jim Boeheim’s life at Syracuse
Pete ThamelESPN3:30 p.m. ET7 Minutes Studying Wealthy Barnes/Getty Pictures SYRACUSE COACH Jim Boeheim by no means wished a farewell tour with rocking chairs, monogrammed whiskey bottles and tribute movies. The way it ended Wednesday was way more becoming: an ungainly press convention after dropping a lunchtime buzzer-beater in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC event city Boeheim had lengthy derided. All this uncommon, like Boeheim himself. A number of hours later, the varsity issued a press release that didn’t embody the phrase retirement. There have been no quotes from Boeheim, simply awkward platitudes from fits who appeared to hope their flowery prose may trump disagreeable realities: Jim Boeheim’s 47-year head teaching…