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Coming to Cupid's Rescue In a world at war with toxins, violence, global warming and weird diseases, Nancy Gibbs' attack on Valentine's Day (which she called "A Day to Forget") is right up there with the Grinch stealing Christmas [Feb. 18]. Perhaps Gibbs, too, needs to check the...
Weiner says his own disposition is akin to that of his favorite Winnie the Pooh character, Eeyore the despondent donkey. That - along with the fact that he has worked as a journalist in more than 30 countries and for a decade was a correspondent for U.S. nonprofit radio-news syndicator...
At times, Weiner's gruffness comes off as a strained attempt to stay in the kind of character his book's structure requires, but his skill as a narrator outweighs this mannerism. Geography may not always offer the elegant packaging of virtuoso travel writers like Paul Theroux or Jan Morris...
The ethnic political violence that convulsed Kenya after disputed elections on Dec. 27 shattered the nation's image as an oasis of calm in a turbulent corner of Africa. Perhaps no one was more shocked - or had more to lose - than members of Kenya's middle class, who seemed comfortably...
In the whimsical movie “Penelope,” title character Penelope Wilhern, played by Christina Ricci, seems to have it all. As the daughter of blue-blood aristocrats, she has money, charm, and a horde of suitors flocking to her door. Oh yeah, she also has a...