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...Rocky with shoulder pads - almost shamelessly so. The story line is similar: A working-class loser (in this case a part-time bartender and substitute school teacher) takes a shot at athletic glory and, after overcoming long odds and heavy obstacles, achieves success in his chosen sport. Perhaps more to the point, the setting is exactly the same: We are once again in Philadelphia and the grimy streets - or are they, perhaps, the stations of the cross? - through which Vince Papale runs every day in order to condition himself, bear an inescapable resemblance to the ones Rocky Balboa chugged through...
...Tuscany, may remember me as the Guest from Hell: high maintenance, capricious and, quite frankly, badly behaved. But I was only doing my job - with assistance from my husband Andy and in spontaneous cooperation with a British food writer and broadcaster (we'll call him G.) who had chosen the same dates to review the hotel and its famed restaurant, La Trattoria Toscana. Together with G.'s swanlike girlfriend, we put that hotel through its paces. We chomped through the menu in the Trattoria and raced, super-charged, through the super[an error occurred while processing this directive] Tuscans...
...third child, and they've learned their lesson with the first," observes Jim Conroy, a college counselor at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. Their message: while you may not be able to get into Harvard, it also does not matter anymore. Just ask the kids who have chosen to follow a different road...
...late teens or 20s. "Islam is a kind of refuge for those who are downtrodden and disenfranchised because it has become the religion of the oppressed," says Farhad Khosrokhavar, a Paris professor and the author of several books on Muslim extremism. "Previously--say, 20 years ago--they may have chosen communism or gone to leftist ideologies. Now Islam is the religion of those who fight against imperialism, who are treated unjustly by the arrogant Western societies...
...that conveys depression and anxiety more entertainingly and eloquently than almost any book I've ever read, and which almost instantly made him the premier literary novelist in his age bracket. You might also possibly remember Franzen as the man who rather too honestly expressed his ambivalence over being chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club, prompting Winfrey to honestly, unambivalently rescind her invitation to come on her show...