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...four years ago, “I don’t think our troops ought to be used for what’s called ‘nation-building’.”) Kerry ought to fight back with a moniker fit for Bush. “Asleep at the wheel,” a phrase we have heard many times during these past few weeks of Senate hearings, is actually a fair description of Bush’s record on everything from global terrorism to global warming. If Kerry dares to call the president on his somnambulant stewardship...
...Everything has become show business,” he said. “You wonder whether we’re all kind of asleep at the switch or whether we’re all getting infected...
...slumbering form of the poet John Giorno, coupled, perhaps, with the rich hues and dark settings of a Caravaggio. But never mind. You can dress it up any way you please, but David is nothing more than an hour's footage of a really handsome, really famous footballer fast asleep. And that's enough for those of us in Room 41. Our thoughts are full of the beauty of Beckham, and the creamy blue light bathing his torso. His golden shoulder may nod to the classical statues of the gods, but we mortal women gaze, moonfaced, at the soft flicker...
While many students, even at Harvard, tend to avoid the library whenever possible, Diane Tucker flocks there like a bee to honey. It seems that what to one undergrad is a place to check email and read for 45 minutes (before falling asleep) is to Tucker a treasure trove. Surrounded by bags of library books and study materials, she snacks on chocolate bars while soaking up natural light and the cultural norms of the Middle East. FM sat down with Tucker, a second year GSAS student in the Middle Eastern Studies Department, to talk about why she?...
...observation that, "Sometimes I don't think people understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don't really matter." It reminded him of sharing a bedroom with his brother as a child. "I was insomniac," he says. "I would say to my brother, 'Are you asleep? Are you asleep?' No answer. I think I would have actually been less lonely by myself in my own room." Don't get the wrong idea - Gondry's youth in Versailles, France, was happy, richly colored by the creative ethos of his computer-programmer dad and his musician mom. Fascinated...