Word: annelies
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...pursue meditation. That's what Buddhists meant it for, after all, since they believe that life inevitably entails suffering. My only counterargument is that they came up with that suffering idea before television was invented. --Reported by David Bjerklie, Alice Park and David Van Biema/New York City, Karen Ann Cullotta/Iowa and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter's acerbic tirades are nothing new [10 QUESTIONS, July 14]. Right-wing ideologues have always wrapped themselves in the flag, labeling those who disagree with them as traitorous and unpatriotic. This is fascism, not patriotism. Coulter says "the Democratic Party has got to go away." Maybe she didn't notice, but the Democrats have won the popular vote in the past three presidential elections. With so many "traitors" among us, how does this country endure? JOHN LONG Pasadena, Calif...
...microfilm’s place will not remain empty for long, said Professor of History Ann M. Blair, who is a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ standing committee on libraries...
...feisty cow meant it." Steel doesn't limit his jibes to historical targets; he frequently invokes modern parallels - especially British establishment types - to emphasize a point. His mention of the guillotine as a liberal, more humanitarian method of execution prompts a riff on how shrill-voiced arch-Tory Ann Widdecombe would have complained that the Jacobins were soft on crime. You might not laugh your head off, but Vive La Revolution yields enough chuckles to distinguish it from most histories...
...APPOINTED. AMY DICKINSON, 43, a former lounge singer and TIME writer; to take over the Ann Landers advice column; in Chicago. Dickinson will pen "Ask Amy," the successor to Landers' Chicago Tribune column, which was once the most widely read newspaper column in the world. The new agony aunt is a distant relative of poet Emily Dickinson...