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...nose that it was damn cold outside, so the crooked sign hanging in the window, "Yenching--Open Until 11," was a most welcome sight. And in the warmth of the restaurant, drinking hot tea and reading the New York Times in the company of others for whom Jesus's birthday is simply another occasion to go to the movies, I knew that staying in Cambridge over the break had been the right decision...
...handed their mortal enemy the weapons that Starr could use to kill them. The next day, the friend could sense how badly it had gone: Hillary seemed a different person--not speaking, not touching, not smiling, barely breathing. She disappeared for the weekend, save for church and a prescheduled birthday party for her husband on the South Lawn, and didn't emerge until moments before he semi-confessed on national television. "It's your speech," she said. "You say what you want to say," which turned out to be bad advice...
...attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder for which he receives Ritalin. It is difficult to list the ways a lack of impulse control can affect a child and his family. Our son was one month away from his fifth birthday when we realized we needed help. He incinerated food in the microwave, turned off the hot-water heater and opened the water-release valve, forced several steak knives through a wooden fence and finally bloodied a pet. Does this sound like an unsupervised child? I am home full time with him, and vigilance was the key word. Even with all the unanswered...
...connoisseurship attached. The figure who most vividly expressed the relation between culture and the samurai ethos remained a legend long after his death. He was Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), who wrote a famous text on swordplay (A Book of Five Rings) and reputedly killed 60 swordsmen before his 30th birthday; he then gave up killing in favor of painting and calligraphy. One of his ink paintings is in the show, a swiftly brushed image of a shrike balanced on a branch above a caterpillar that is crawling upward, presumably to its doom. It is a graphic masterpiece. You feel...
...word on Anita O'Day, the singer whose career began in the late 1930s. "She must be in her 70s now, and I wonder if she is still with us. I scan your Milestones, fearing the worst." Not to worry, we told him: O'Day just celebrated her 79th birthday, and she's planning a performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall next July...