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...heart beat faster and my skin begin to tingle at this bit of warmed-over anti-feminism from a not-so-distant past (that of Wendy Shalit and A Return to Modesty), and I look around the dining hall to see others with their jaws agape, gasping for breath and possibly drooling because of a publication produced with shameless gusto by women who love to shock and provoke. There must be a thousand grit-stained copies of the Salient quickening pulses and/or churning stomachs in the Harvard dining halls. We read on out of the same “morbid...
...campaign to depose Saddam would not be an isolated war; rather, it would be another front in the larger war to eradicate Islamic terrorism and its state sponsors. Delivered with his customary biting wit and hilarious pop-culture analogies, Miller’s recent remarks have been a breath of fresh air amidst a whirling storm of left-wing celebrity propaganda theories...
...thinking—what is this strange fascination that millions of sports fans have for watching grown men and women play games that are actually ridiculously silly in the grand scheme of things? Why do smelly old jerseys and fading pictures still make us both catch our breath and giddy with excitement...
...spoke to Loiseau the day before he died, says his friend had been deeply affected by the rankings demotion and by newspaper articles speculating that he might lose one of his three Michelin stars, which turned out to be untrue. "He was very anxious. He felt out of breath," Bocuse says. "You know, it is a very difficult profession...
...control partying is that much higher with Gazza's drinking buddies in town. Already, the first day after his father and friend showed up, Gascoigne drags a little in practice. "He needs to work harder," mutters an assistant coach. The Englishman runs by, red faced and slightly out of breath. When a younger teammate passes him, Gazza cheers and slaps him a high five. His mouth is curved into a smile, but his eyes are not quite happy. Redemption, he knows, comes in the strangest of places. But in faraway China, Gazza seems so very lost...