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...least as a moral force--is that the sympathy we extend to characters while we are part of an audience rarely carries over into our everyday lives. The darkness of a theater may allow us to feel compassion for a Trigorin or a Don on stage, but when daylight returns and we meet similar people in our lives we revert back to judgment and condemnation. We have to. We are no longer unobservable. We exist, and so long as we choose to exist we have to defend that existence. Judgment and condemnation are means of self-defense...
...eyes. Yes, that's right, not the huge muscles or that deep, scary voice. It's the see-in-the-dark eyes (contact lenses that Vin Diesel described as similar to "hubcaps off a 1960 Plymouth, painted blue") and the mysterious goggles he wears to protect them in broad daylight...
...with a 15-year-old babysitter. (Michael died in a 1997 skiing accident.) Soon after, Skakel moved from Massachusetts into the Florida house owned by his father in an expensive gated community. Still, Robert Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times last week that Skakel "is as honest as daylight...a genuinely good and decent soul...
...dispute sillier than states competing to hold the first election primary, the Republic of Kiribati beat out Tonga and New Zealand's Chatham Islands for the media's anointment of birthplace of the third millennium. To jump in front of the Chatham Islands by 15 minutes, Tonga sneakily used daylight savings time, while Kiribati had the international dateline moved in 1995 so its snazzily named if unfortunately uninhabited Millennium Island would be first. Kiribati's Micronesian dancers, shipped in from Tawara, whupped it up before the world's cameras for six minutes and then prepped for the next TV spot...
...Croon, 33, and Dean Braid, 27, whose televised wedding was accompanied by fireworks? Or was it that of Cheryl Berthelsen and Matthew Beach, both 28 and from Virginia, who won a $15,000 auction at weddingchannel.com to be married in the South Pacific on private Turtle Island, which employs daylight saving time? Later, 700 couples were married in a ceremony in Philadelphia; 2,000 in a Bangkok ceremony; 110 along the Delaware River; 20 couples in the Maryland courthouse where Monica Lewinsky testified against Linda Tripp two weeks ago; and 20 in Las Vegas' Chapel Viva Las Vegas, which featured...