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...have this sense, perhaps born of Jaws in 1975 and nurtured by its three sequels, that sharks lurk in an area, waiting to eat us as revenge for Roy Scheider's oceanic wickedness. It's not true; sharks attack and move on. The shark that bit into Martin - probably a 15- to 16-foot great white, according to a marine scientist quoted in Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune, was probably a bit dim. The animal likely mistook Martin, who was clad in a black wetsuit, for a seal. Some here are even wondering if, in a way, the seals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shark Frenzy in Solana Beach | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...went surfing yesterday. Does that help?" Martin said, a bit sharply. "I'm taking my boys out tomorrow." There was little left to say. The reporters began to melt away. In the distance, the sun still dazzled the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shark Frenzy in Solana Beach | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...what he saw as the evils of capitalism." By that point int his career, King had been banned from Lyndon Johnson's White House. The New York Times condemned his speech, running an editorial calling it "Dr. King's Error." And Barry Goldwater said King "bordered a little bit on treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeremiah Wright Goes to War | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...that King, the one who sounded a little bit like Jeremiah Wright, is not the one we remember every January. It's because the prophetic black church tradition has been filtered into an unthreatening form suitable for public consumption, so that it has been rendered, in Wright's word, "invisible." And it is because of that invisibility that Wright's sermons seemed so shocking and out of the mainstream. In reality, the two strands fit together - the unbearable optimism of "I Have a Dream" and the righteous anger of "I cannot be silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeremiah Wright Goes to War | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...gregarious Lubavitcher named Shalom Pasternak, who sings in a band he created with my cousin called Kabbalah Dream Orchestra, was helping my cousin dispense shots of whisky and blessings to his friends and family. With his beautiful bride, and - let's face it - some fascinating friends, he was every bit the Half-Blood Prince. We were all glad to see it, wizard and muggle alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Didn't Know Harry Potter Was Jewish? | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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