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...Stones in My Pockets? three years back) incarnates Guillaume as a piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical ?Les Miserables?) with a puffed-out chest that shows awareness of his charismatic statesmanship, relishes danger, even the threat of a spy in his bosom: ?The merest possibility that Gunther is not what he seems makes him infinitely more tolerable...
Almost every day my little girl climbs into her old man's lap and puts her little arms around his neck and lays her head against his chest and melts his heart like cheese under the broiler. She comes home from soccer and bursts into the house and cries "Daddy!" and runs and clasps his knees for perhaps four seconds, or three, and this is the Hallelujah Chorus and the Water Lilies at Giverny of parenthood. And sometimes she says, "I love you so much." This is so indescribably lovely that the old man feels dread in his heart: When...
...Greece who pulled out of the Games in a doping controversy. The race was delayed six minutes. Although the sprinters admitted the delay irked them, after Crawford, Bernard Williams and Gatlin placed 1-2-3, the American's didn't seek revenge on the jingoistic fans. There was no chest thumping, no taunting. Says Williams, who ran on the gold-medal 4X100 team in Sydney that embarrassed itself after an excessive celebration: "I've learned from my mistakes...
...Later in the week, the 21-year-old heartthrob with the intense eyes and chiseled chest captured another title in the 200-m breaststroke race. But Kitajima was hardly alone in harvesting laurels for his nation. After less than a week of competition, Japan had more than doubled its total golden haul from Sydney and had claimed the No. 3 spot in the overall gold-medal tally, trailing only the U.S. and China. In the marquee swimming races, Japan's men won four medals?four more than in Sydney, where their squad sank without a trace. The country's female...
...thick golden light of a setting African sun, under the speckled shade of an acacia tree, three young lions are feasting on a baby giraffe. The hindquarters are gone; the chest is laid bare. Dry, snapping noises can be heard across the grasslands as the animals crack the ribs of their prey to get to the vital organs. Coolly, with utter confidence, a mature lioness--the oldest of the seven-member pride--approaches. A 3-year-old male tries to scare her off with a snarl, but she lunges at him, baring her teeth and biting at his neck. After...