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Parker's memoir, by contrast, is a carefully constructed and subtle rendering of a richly textured life. The "first black woman" wherever she went--prep school, Radcliffe, a tony law firm--Parker deftly mines the universal in experiences that bear both the good fortune and freight of a privileged birthright. Her warm evocation of her childhood in Durham, N.C., where she ate several dinners each day to satisfy the neighbors who beckoned, "Gwennie Mac, come on in," makes you hunger for a time when children were everyone's responsibility...
Apparently, when wardens capture a bear that has been troubling tourists, they try to condition the bear against such behavior by setting off firecrackers and spraying the bear with pepper spray. While doing that, the wardens costume themselves as tourists, since bears in Banff National Park tend to stay away from wardens, whom they recognize by their uniforms...
Where we live in the summer, there are sometimes bears in the woods. Would it do me any good, while walking through the woods, to wear a Banff National Park warden's uniform? How would I go about obtaining a Banff National Park warden's uniform sufficiently authentic to fool a bear? And would it need to be delivered...
What now? Microsoft's bear hug buys Apple a few months' breathing room, and replacing most of the company's reviled board of directors with bold-faced techies like Oracle's Larry Ellison and Intuit's Bill Campbell was a necessary--and possibly helpful--housecleaning. Now Jobs must recruit some dynamic marketing-minded luminary as CEO to get the company moving forward...
...homosexuality. Some gays channel their reaction to alienation into hard work, but others may manifest a grave pathology. Our competitive society produces heroes, but it also brings down many who become disillusioned with their lives. What happened to Versace in Miami Beach, Fla., was a tragedy, and society does bear some of the responsibility, since it played a part in the creation of Versace and Cunanan. STEPHEN P. TITUS New York City...