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...unseemly in a woman. Maybe it's simple racism. Or maybe it's just that the Williams sisters, as good as they are, are kind of arrogant and aloof and unfocused on tennis. "People criticize me as being arrogant," Venus said last Monday during a tournament in New Haven, Conn., her toy Yorkshire popping out of her Kate Spade bag. "Maybe because I'm a little smarter than the others. Maybe it's because when they ask me a silly question, I refuse to answer it and make myself look foolish." There is a lot of silence at Williams sisters...
...little before sunset on a Friday evening, the sound of Brahms fills the cavernous First Presbyterian Church in New Canaan, Conn. Doron and Hilary Ben-Ami, with their two children Juliet, 12, and Jake, 9, are among several families walking--slowly, shoeless and single file--through an elaborate, 40-ft.-wide labyrinth, painted in purple and white on canvas. Doron is the first to the center, where he is joined by his wife and kids. They sit together for several long minutes in meditation, then get up and walk the pathway out. "It's really relaxing, and I also love...
...Amis, who are Jewish, drove an hour from Brookfield, Conn., for the Family Labyrinth Walk--held twice a year by the nondenominational New Canaan-based Labyrinth Project of Connecticut--to expose their kids to an ancient form of meditation and spirituality. In the Middle Ages, when Christians could not make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, they would walk a labyrinth to symbolize the journey. Today, adults and kids of all faiths are walking them to pray, meditate or simply relax...
...probability, it appears that the greater danger for our anxiety-prone society is not in the seas or the stars but in ourselves. If we are overcome by the imagined risk of unlikely death, we may miss the elusive chance to live fully. (THE REV.) WILLIAM J. KEANE Branford, Conn...
...LAURA BUSH, U.S. First Lady Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by PETER J. CONN "I always read every night for 30 or 40 minutes at least. Sometimes [the President] asks me to turn out the light, and sometimes I have to ask him. It depends on who's sleepiest...