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...first my interest was voyeuristic. Allen and I read crazy quotes aloud to each other, laughing at their sheer absurdity. Allen proceeded with characteristic skepticism. But the more I read Dianetics, the less I laughed and the more I was seduced. In Hubbard’s manifesto I had expected to find the psychopathic derangement Cruise had recently taken to exhibiting, or at least a monolithic definition of the good life...
...going to die tonight and stand before God, having done a bunch of ice." ASHLEY SMITH, Atlanta woman hailed in March for persuading the man who held her hostage--after killing a judge and three others--to surrender by reading aloud from the spiritual best seller The Purpose-Driven Life, in a new memoir revealing that she also gave him some crystal methamphetamine but refused to do drugs with...
...Some of us have not been lulled into a coma of patriotic contentment. Every time the newspaper publishes the names of our servicemen and service-women killed in Iraq, I read them aloud. I say the names of the fallen to acknowledge their lives and their deaths. I am calling the roll of the dead that this President must answer for. Karyn J. Powers Wausau, Wisconsin...
Standing alone on the stage of the Loeb Drama Center last March, minutes after the Faculty of Arts and Sciences issued an unprecedented rebuke of his leadership, University President Lawrence H. Summers looked stunned and defeated. Turning to no one in particular, he wondered aloud, “What...
...pacing the set like a caged beast. He scans the five screens on his desk, stops, punches some keys. "Hmm. The Chinese Google plays are up," he mumbles. He furrows his brows, pokes a few more keys. "Whoa. Wells Fargo gave up on the brokerage business." He's talking aloud to himself, which is fine, because this is just a warm-up for the barrage of instant analysis he is about to unleash. Cramer's knack for quick distillation enabled him to build a fortune as a fast-trading hedge-fund manager in the '90s. Now he's using...