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...here at Big Sur that I first learned to say Amen!" wrote Henry Miller. From the Point Sur Lighthouse, Earle looks out at a long breath of fog over the water and says, "I love life...
With the recent visit of President Clinton, the international community turned to Belfast, hoping that with the new Northern Ireland Assembly and the recent withdrawal of British troops, neighborhoods like the Catholic enclave surrounding Milltown would get a chance to catch their breath, a chance at peace. But as authorities in the Northern capital continue backpedaling when pressed about substantive police and housing reform, points of contention among the poor on both sides of the religious divide, the old conflicts continue...
...meantime, if you took Redux or fenfluramine, be sure to tell your doctor. If he or she detects a murmur or if you develop significant shortness of breath, you will have to have an ultrasound examination of the heart called an echocardiogram to determine whether you need further medical attention. If there is a valve problem, you may have to take antibiotics before undergoing certain procedures, such as teeth cleaning, that increase the risk that bacteria could enter your bloodstream...
...reason I ask this question is because it is time we took a deep breath and thought hard about what the Lewinsky scandal is all about. We need to pause between the expressions of outrage and disgust, take a step back and a healthy dose of historical perspective. We also need to think about the lies politicians tell us every day, and why it is that only the ones about sex seem to be grounds for removal from office these days...
...Though Breath, Eyes, Memory caught Oprah's eye, Danticat's The Farming of Bones is a richer, more resonant work. There is magic and loss on nearly every page. At one point in the novel, a man who has been struck by a machete and left for dead in a pile of corpses tells his story. "'I felt like my woman on our first night together,' he said. 'She woke up in the middle of the night and started screaming...this was her first night outside her mother's bed and she'd plain forgotten where she was... Waking...