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Today Michael and I are friends. On Christmas Eve, we gathered a group, and I made an enthusiastic attempt at the traditional Italian seven-fishes feast. I'm in better shape now than I was in high school, which fits with psychologist Bella DePaulo's finding (in her fascinating 2006 book on single life, Singled Out) that the period around divorce is associated with improvements in health. Divorced men are also, not surprisingly, happier than men stuck in bad marriages...
...popular and political mind, pop culture and conservative Christianity are separated like church and state. Britney, The Da Vinci Code and MTV are here; homeschooling, Left Behind and praise music are there. What God hath put asunder, let not man attempt to join...
...wealthy man who loses his right arm in a construction accident and moves to a lonely island that seems to grant him the power to paint surreal, sometimes premonitory images. At its core, the book is about creativity and its relationship to physical and mental healing?King's continuing attempt to address his own mortality years after his near death...
...English classics, and Student B, who has learned “How to Escape from the Feminine Voice” from “Women Writers in Imperial China,” have had equivalent experiences. In the Analog Darkness of 2009, A will turn to B and attempt to talk about literature. “I know how to escape from the feminine voice,” B will say. Awkward silence will ensue.For those of us who grew up with analog and won’t still be around at Harvard for the new Gen Ed curriculum, this...
...classmates kept careful track of the executions, observing closely how the Nazis led the Jews to the edge of the trees, then shot them in small groups. Near the end of the war, the Nazis ordered Jewish prisoners to burn the corpses in the forests in a hurried attempt to erase the evidence before Germany's retreat from Ukraine in 1944. "Columns of smoke rose until we could barely breathe," said Wislowski, describing the massive burning program. Historians believe about 90,000 people lie in more than 40 mass graves tucked among the trees of the Lisinichi Forest, including hundreds...