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...course, this isn’t the first time Congress has approached a complex question armed only with sound bytes. But Congress is a political beast, good at balancing interests and not much else, and there are no lobbyists here—except for a few biotech companies and the Catholic Church. One might think that this freedom from lobbying would spur healthy debate, improving the chances that Congress would reach the right decision for the right reasons. But without a firmer grasp of the ethical arguments than the five-minute presentations they receive—and without the courage...
...especially among my high school friends. We exchanged countless cards embossed with Boynton's signature cuddly, chocoholic creatures, never caring that we duplicated our efforts at least once a year. A perennial bestseller bore a takeoff on the famous Hallmark ad line: "I care enough to send the hairy beast," accompanied by a drawing of a fat, furry, grinning monster. And my personal favorite, which I gave at least 5 times to each of my (long-suffering) parents: "I love you. Almost as much as I love chocolate." (Hey, we're Presbyterian. This is what passes for an embarrassing outpouring...
...down in Kathmandu, Nepal, two Fridays ago. He was there to write this week's cover story, the heroic tale of Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man who had scaled Mount Everest. But in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Greenfeld was roused in order to track down a different beast altogether--the story behind the assassinations of the King, Queen and much of the royal family of Nepal by the Crown Prince...
...sore truth seems to be that Reynolds had scarcely heard of Blake, and would not have felt threatened by him anyway. But time was on Blake's side. Does any Reynolds fix itself in memory with the tragic vividness of Blake's watercolor of King Nebuchadnezzar, a taloned half-beast on all fours, glaring from the confines of his intolerable fate like an animal in a cage? Blake believed he had been appointed by supreme powers to render the most elevated scenes of Milton and the Bible in the language of Michelangelo and Raphael; in this he was wrong...
...Oscar for Best Picture and which reigned for 12 years as the world's top-grossing film). But the form soon atrophied. The last traditional live-action musical to be a box-office smash was Grease, in 1978. Since then, only animated features like Beauty and the Beast have put fannies in the seats and songs on the Top 40. And lately, even the cartoons are doing without a lot of new songs. Today the notion of people opening their mouths to sing their hearts out is as anachronistic as speaking in iambic pentameter...