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...began with a moment of silence. At moments like this, at funerals and memorial services, one thought quickly, yet consistently, enters my mind: What if someone laughed? The thought disturbs me, both thinking it and thinking of the consequences, so I rush it out of my mind. West wondered aloud why President Lawrence H. Summers had not canceled classes for the day. The appropriateness of a day of mourning suddenly struck me and yet, within minutes, I was taking notes. No professor quite knew how to preface the introductory lectures. Why were we there...
...bills), but he had hoped that perhaps she’d find a way to give him his present anyway. But soon, a mysterious stranger (Hopkins), who introduces himself as Ted Braughtigan, moves in upstairs and offers to pay Bobby a dollar a week to read the newspaper aloud to him and to watch for the “lowmen.” With visions of his bike in mind, he agrees, and slowly, Braughtigan begins to change Bobby’s perception of reality...
Sedaris' work deserves better, and it has been getting it. The acclaim began in 1992 when Sedaris read aloud on NPR from The SantaLand Diaries, a prickly extended sketch about working at Macy's as a Christmas elf. A book contract for a collection of essays followed. In Holidays on Ice, Barrel Fever and Naked, Sedaris found a persona and a groove as a chain-smoking, movie-obsessed, gay misfit who got dark laughs from his mother's bout with cancer, from a painful sojourn at a nudist colony and from his fumbled sexual awakening at summer camp. "What...
...still seems to score at will, despite his relative puniness (the 76ers generously list him at 6 ft., 165 lbs.) After Iverson torched the Lakers for 48 points in the first game of this year's NBA finals, dealing L.A. their only playoff loss, Laker Robert Horry wondered aloud just how anyone was supposed to defend the little guy: "He can get the jumper anytime he wants, so all you can do is hope he's not hitting it. If he drives, you have to hope the help comes quick enough. There's a lot of hope involved...
...flatly, "He's frustrated. I know he's not happy." A close associate at State says, "Sure, there's frustration?especially when you didn't have to do this and you're working your buns off at it." It has got bad enough for his intimate aides to wonder aloud whether Powell will serve out his full term. "You gotta wonder," says one, "whether you're still having...