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Somewhere deep in the publishing mills of New York City, an editor is massaging his (or probably her) pale, prominent brow and asking, "How the hell did I do that?" That person is the editor of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, a beautiful, sensitive, melancholy novel of exactly the sort that's usually overlooked by the reading public. Except that it wasn't. The Lovely Bones inspired immoderately enthusiastic reviews (including one from this reviewer), sold more than 2 million copies and levitated onto the best-seller lists, where it still sits a year later...
When we pulled off the highway and entered the hamlet of Pho Phra Doh, consternation furrowed the old doctor's brow. "This doesn't look like the place at all," he said. But then again, he hadn't been back for 32 years...
...keeps his eyes on the camera, brow slightly furrowed, his entire goateed face animated as he dives into an investigatory spiel about the integrity of the Harvard shuttle bus service...
...become a president," she declared. "But I personally don't have such a dream ... because we are living in a world in which Mr. George W. Bush is the most famous President." Wait a minute, you say. Didn't Cannes use to be the place to see elegant, middle-brow European films and buxom topless starlets? Wait no more: Ludivine Sagnier to the rescue. Voluptuous and pouty, Sagnier has her limitations as an actress - she doesn't radiate so much as glower - but just now she's everywhere in French movies, including two in the Cannes competition. In La Petite...
...trek was a seven-day slog toward the Goecha La plateau to see the sun rise on the world's third highest mountain: the mighty, 8,586-meter Kanchenjunga. Apart from a guide, it required three permits. But even if it wasn't illegal, wandering alone is a brow-furrowing prospect, for trails quickly extend beyond the reach of telephones. Dialing air rescue in emergencies is not an option, which is why, by the time we started, staff outnumbered clients. At the Yuksom trailhead, Samten Bhutia, our guide, hired the cook, a cook's helper, two dzos (hirsute offspring...