Andrew Kidd, the literary agent who co-founded the Folio prize, said: "In this second year of the prize our five judges have again lived up to every expectation, selecting from a glorious shortlist a heartbreaking and funny novel whose astonishing power is achieved in constantly surprising ways".
Blame the sunshine or the smog or its enormousness, but Los Angeles County has once again lived up to its reputation for flamboyance, this time putting forth nearly a quarter of the official candidates trying to replace Gov. Gray Davis, should he lose the Oct. 7 recall vote.
This summer, BBC Sport has again broadcast live commentary on every day's play of every match in the county season.
They overlapped in Baltimore for less than two years and have never again lived in the same city, but they have rarely let a day pass without talking, mostly on the phone and usually at length.
The feeling that the Philippines has again failed to live up to expectations has deepened in recent years.
Nonetheless, the consensus was that, having previously restored financial health to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and to American Ballet Theater, he had once again lived up to the nickname of Mr. Turnaround.
Korean boy band TVXQ! have once again lived up to the meaning of their name: the "Rising Gods of the East" made history last week when the final shows of their Begin Again tour helped the concert series surpass the milestone of 1 million tickets sold.
"The sense of stability has again left our lives, as has the sense that Putin is a kind of magician who controls everything: Crimea, tigers, the rouble.
Since the mid-70s, however, we have again been living in a different world in which the automatic prosperity and growth of the postwar decades have disappeared.
Then, he said, "the whole world suddenly shrinks to the limits of the camp" and the captive "begins to dread the prospect of having again to live at liberty," because "at the very depth of human degradation there occur moments when every possibility of change, even change for the better, appears risky and dangerous".
