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...custom, Coach Tim Murphy answered without a hitch...
...author's secret appears to be the steadiness of his gaze. He looks straight at whatever he is describing, concentrating utterly (for a chapter or only a sentence or two) on, say, why bears are more dangerous than tigers in animal acts, or on the merry custom of "choosing day," when carny couples pair up. Or on the night toward the novel's end (and it may be toward Hope's end as well) when the hero's teenage daughter talks to him by his bedside for 12 hours and more, telling him about the time in Rome when...
Western delegates generally hailed the CNN footage as much needed publicity for a long-overlooked custom that is common in Egypt and other parts of Africa, though it has no roots in the Koran. But the Egyptian press denounced the tape as a betrayal of Cairo's gracious hospitality and tried to discredit the piece by charging that CNN had "staged" the circumcision and paid the participants. Actually, CNN paid $300 to a free-lance producer to find and make arrangements with the Hamza family, who in turn paid $44 to one of her aunts for serving...
Elizabeth may be the last irreproachable monarch -- perhaps the last viable one. Some earlier rulers have been reprobates, but by custom, the press protected them. Now royals are the cannon fodder in media wars, as the Prince of Wales found out when his puerile but genuinely intimate telephone talk with Parker Bowles -- the infamous "Tampax tapes" -- was leaked...
...individual is sacred and the willed reinvention of personality is a ritual. Naipaul is himself a successful product of modernity's powers of transformation. He was born 61 years ago into a Hindu society that had been transplanted to rural Trinidad by indentured laborers from India. Molded by family custom and the tensions of his multiracial island, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was then reshaped by British institutions. They included a scholarship system that brought the gifted young colonial to postwar England, where he settled and began his long, penny-pinching slog toward literary distinction...