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...suspect. In the future everyone will all know the script I'm trying not to follow. My performance, to be convincing, will have to be better than normal. If you're normal, or people think you are, you can clear your throat or trip on a rug or complain of a headache without raising alarms or eyebrows. When people know it is partly performance...
...like most people, you know that a sleepless night can sap your energy and turn your brain into mush. So it may be hard to fathom how anyone could complain about having too much sleep. And yet that's the predicament faced by the estimated 200,000 Americans who suffer from a condition called narcolepsy. They don't generally fall asleep in the middle of a meal or a conversation--that happens in movies and television sitcoms. But they struggle with an overwhelming sense of drowsiness they can't shake--even after a good night's rest...
Fast-forward thirty years. Now, when we gripe about the woes of sports, we complain about ego. We complain about pride. We complain about the obnoxious scowl Latrell Sprewell puts on after he dunks, about endzone dances and casually flipping the bat after jacking one to left center. But should...
...express, launched two years ago by the Paris-based Victoria hotel chain, is really three specially outfitted carriages added to the regular night train from Hanoi to the northern border town of Lao Cai. The journey is such a pleasure that, contrary to most train rides, passengers complain that the 10-hour trip is too short. The experience is mashed potatoes, fried rice and your mother's chicken noodle soup all rolled into one. With its combination of opulence?uniformed waiters, linen tablecloths?and the back-in-time feeling of train travel, it's also a near-perfect antidote...
...delivery, once parodied, have the right pitch for the crisis - at least in the U.S. The President has been able to rally the country from both the rostrum and the rubble pile. Mention this evolution to the Bush team and you'll get howls. He was always thus, they complain: Bush has not suddenly grown talents from scratch; he has merely shifted his focus. When concentrating on specific tasks with identifiable goals, he has always performed well...