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After spending two and a half years in college being mocked by friends and defending my lifestyle to people who have been driving since they were thirteen and first got a crack at the tractor, I decided to take action. I would take driving lessons for real and get my license. I would drive myself across the country, chaperone friends, start a taxi service. I called up a driving school in New York and started taking lessons...
...very reasons that Jesus did. The preacher who affirms that miracles can indeed happen must also be prepared to explain why they do not. Why do some cancers vanish while others consume? Why do people starve if five loaves could feed 5,000? "Miracles can be like crack; you never quite get enough of them," says Clarence Hardy, minister at the Convent Baptist Church in West Harlem, New York City. "The real test of faith is when there aren't any signs; faith is relatively easy if you're standing in front of a miracle...
...that Lightman didn't stick with Scalopino and Sophie, for the first chapter seems to portend a successful (if not entirely original) intellectual mystery novel, with Scalopino as the fat, slightly revolting genius, whose nut is Lang's to crack, and Sophie as the romantic interest, a nut of a different flavor. In another novel, Lightman might have found better use for his more intriguing characters--Uncle Maury the gambler who tries to expiate himself by fixing the plumbing, Davis the aging, macho thesis adviser who bets bottles of vodka on his own conjectures...
...climb in through a window that isn't open or isn't open for you, you may end up with one confused lady and one angry boyfriend. You should play "rear window" for a week or so. If she seems to be leaving it open a crack every night just for you, go for it. If she always locks up before bed, don't risk an ad boarding or a beating by smashing the glass with a rock. Remember: the Dodgers will only win the pennant if the Giants fall far behind...
...matter how much Bhutto's government tries to crack down on troublemakers, though, Mrs. Clinton is visiting a country that has grown bitterly anti-American since the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. Once-moderate Pakistan resents being left awash in drug and arms traffic--and trained Islamic fighters--built up with U.S. support during the Western campaign to oust the Soviet army from Afghanistan. In 1990 the U.S. Congress passed a resolution denying all economic and military aid to Pakistan over suspicions that it was developing nuclear weapons. Three years later, Washington threatened to place Pakistan on the list...