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...MANY BARGAINS, SO LITTLE TIME If you crave good deals but can't bother clipping ads, Shoppinglist.com may help. The site scans ads placed in newspapers by department, sports and drug stores in 26 metro areas from Boston to San Diego; then it picks out specials and neatly arranges them by category so you can find a deal in seconds. We thought early listings on this new site were a bit sparse, but it's still a handy shopping guide...
Life behind the scenes has its merits, I suppose, but deep down under, I think we all crave our fifteen minutes of fame, wherever and in whatever form they may turn up. The key to these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...
Obviously, I have no great sympathy for Salinger's privacy mania. If you crave total privacy, don't write books, and if you must, certainly don't publish them. And, for God's sake, lay off the missives. Furthermore, if absolute solitude is your thing, don't have relationships with other people, and surely don't have sex with them. Another good rule of thumb: don't have children. They eventually talk too. Salinger's daughter Margaret ("Peggy") is writing her own memoir about life with Daddy...
...seems undeniable that only Harvard undergraduates, absolutely certain of the common knowledge of their species-specific traits (an irrepressible diligence so extreme and potentially psychologically hazardous that the Harvard environmental protection agency must be constantly aware of the threat of extinction to their genius), would righteously crave the wisdom of the firm hand which would put a lock on the library door Friday nights...
...former lawyer, David says people crave the kind of discipline he offers. "There's organized religion and organized government," he said. "We need order in our life." Although he does not dictate what his dinner companions should eat, and has never used physical force to come between a model and a French fry, he does employ a searing, disapproving look that, oddly, just made me miss my mother...