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Gentle Reader, all this material is to be found in the first 74 pages of this slender book. The rest is filler about niceties of titles, engraved invitations, birth announcements and letters of condolence. And above all, it is about thank-you notes. They may need all the help they can get to remain a viable institution; as anyone who has ever brought up a child knows, this battle is all but lost. To Miss Manners, however, preserving the thank-you note is to rescue civilization. She is deeply suspicious of the fax machine because she fears it will replace...
...play from reserves like Sarnack. “Our freshmen class has been big-time [all year],” Erickson said. With its freshman class scoring and its defense strong with Shields as its anchor, the Crimson is getting closer to its goal of an eventual NCAA tournament birth. “Today was a must-win game if we’re going to make the NCAA tourney,” Shields said. “[It] was huge to get a 3-0 result against a team like this to [gain] confidence in our defense and offense...
...experiences in his writings about gay life and popular culture. His bluntly honest syndicated advice column, Savage Love, now appears in more than 60 papers. The Kid, his award-winning memoir of gay adoption, tells the story of D.J., the son that Savage and his partner Terry adopted at birth. In his new book, The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family (Dutton), Savage explores the issue of gay marriage, as the couple, who lives in Seattle, struggles with the decision of whether to tie the knot in Canada. We caught up with Savage by phone as he passed through...
...DIED. PAUL PENA, 55, critically loved bluesman, almost completely blind since birth, whose quest to immerse himself in Tuvan throat singing?an arcane art that involves the production of more than one note at the same time?became the subject of an Academy Award-nominated documentary, Genghis Blues, in 1999; of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis; in San Francisco. Pena, who lived off royalties from his song Jet Airliner, a Top 10 hit for the Steve Miller Band in 1977, happened upon Tuvan music in the early 1990s on a shortwave-radio broadcast out of Moscow...
...pulls out Sohil's identity card and strokes the photograph of a strikingly beautiful boy, whose date of birth makes him 14. "He wanted to be a shopkeeper. He used to collect toffees and candles and toys to open his first shop with. I guess they're buried with...