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...stressful and troubling for the boys, who tend to withdraw to a safe place -- sports, scouting, computer gaming -- where they can hang out until they are ready to hold their own with the girls, a process that can take years. Most home video games, unfortunately, are derived from coin-operated arcade models that were designed not to build up a lad's fragile ego but to defeat him and take away his quarters...
...point to have lunch together as often as we could. We would try to have lunch almost every day," said Ben Olken, owner of the old Bicycle Exchange and Slate's longtime friend. "We often met for coffee in the morning at Bartley's and we'd toss coin to see who had to pay. It was a little game...
What Vince Foster seemed to be discovering was the old and tarnished coin of the realm. In a memorable description of Washington, William Manchester (The Death of a President) wrote 30 years ago, describing Lyndon Johnson, that he thought the shortest distance between two points was through a tunnel. Foster found the tunnel, but he did not like the shadowy creatures he found down there...
...because the deaths are meaningless but because their meaning seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...
...when you talk to Kennedy--or, more appropriately, when he converses with you--the two pictures become oddly necessary. A single photo can give you only an attenuated version of David Kennedy; One side of a coin. A joke without its punch line. Choose your own cliche--David is a "living, breathing paradox," as one of his friends...