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Living in a city, you learn to filter out background noise. There’s a constant din of cars passing, doors closing, planes passing, computers humming. We dorm dwellers are especially adept at tuning it out. Richard Yates has a great passage about the sound of the city in a story called “Oh, Joseph, I’m So Tired.” He writes that all the “little sounds add up and come together in a kind of hum. But it’s so faint—so very, very faint?...
...Ayatullah Abul Khoei, who would turn out to be Iraq's leading cleric. As Saddam ruthlessly suppressed clerical activism, Khoei advocated "quietism," the belief that the clergy should mainly serve spiritual and social needs, and not focus on matters of state. Sistani quickly distinguished himself as a brilliant theologian, adept at applying religious doctrine to the dilemmas of modern life. (His website, sistani.org offers advice on the propriety of, among other things, interest-bearing loans and masturbation...
...Without fear of an unwanted pregnancy--or worries about kids barging into the bedroom--older couples have much less reason to be uptight about sex. They are also much more likely to be adept at pleasing each other, knowing where and how to arouse. Some sex counselors report that they see quite a bit of what anthropologist Margaret Mead called PMZ (post-menopausal zest). "Indeed, some women begin to have orgasms for the first time as they grow older," write Dr. Robert Butler and his wife, psychotherapist Myrna Lewis, in The New Love and Sex After 60 (Ballantine Books...
With a rise through Boeing's ranks fueled by his brilliance as an engineer, Condit proved less adept at managing the sprawling corporation and handling his messy private life. Married four times, he had become known in the company as a womanizer, often with Boeing employees, according to a report in BusinessWeek. (Condit has declined to comment.) The board's choice of Stonecipher as CEO showed either a lack of confidence in homegrown talent--the board surprisingly passed over Alan Mulally, 58, a dynamic and squeaky-clean Midwesterner who heads the commercial-jet unit--or a preference for a hard...
...Rachel had a nickel for everytime someone had referred to her wit as “dry,” well, she’d be damn rich. As it stands, Rachel’s the one FM editors run to with their bland headlines and painful puns. Equally adept at counseling overwrought writers and overwritten prose, Rachel is master of every FM domain and her sparkling leadership will be sorely missed next year...