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...team started much worse than it finished, beginning Saturday near the botton of the standings and steadily climbing throughout the two-day event, ultimately to the third slot...
...relief. Hemingway made you feel like a lazy chump for missing out on the running of the bulls in Pamplona, but the new breed of travel books gives you the oxymoronic pleasure of being both over there and back here at the same time. As Alain de Botton puts it in The Art of Travel (Pantheon; 272 pages), "We may best be able to inhabit a place when we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." As travel books go, The Art of Travel is on the unconventional side. It isn't about traveling anywhere...
...little unsettling to be seen as exotic, and that unsettling feeling reminds us that the reason we love to travel and the reason we love to read are the same: to see ourselves clearly. "It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves," De Botton reminds us. "The domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are." In other words, getting lost--whether in a strange city or in a good book--can be the best way to find yourself...
...sparked. Though the New York Times says that "the streets will be littered with lists like this when the millennium comes, and when the millennium goes they will be swept into piles and forgotten," others put a more positive angle on the spats sparked by the list. Alain de Botton says, quite poetically, that "in disagreeing with the judges' choices, we define our own identities as readers. Perhaps the best lists should annoy us most." If this is true, Random House has certainly succeeded...
...start of her second term on the council, Haynes was elected chair of the Student Affairs Committee, where she pushed hot-botton issues like campus safety and Core reform...