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...love-hate cycles with Weight Watchers, her rationalizations ("Everyone says Renée Zellweger looks hotter in that one movie"). And what it's like to binge, postbreakup, on hamburger buns sprayed with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!: "It is like a sandwich ... made of emptiness and disbelief." I'm Not the New Me is, in every way, tastier and more filling than that. And so much better for you. --By Lev Grossman, Belinda Luscombe, Carolina A. Miranda and Michele Orecklin
...great events of Italy's recent past, ranging from the floods in Florence to the struggle against the Mafia in Sicily. At the same time he deftly involves us with a huge cast of characters-parents, siblings, lovers, friends. His melodramatic punctuations of these lives never jar us into disbelief; they simply stir the course of his elegantly believable, totally compelling narrative flow...
...weren’t expecting all of this.” Bassist Altay Guvench ’03 is quick to mention his disbelief at the sudden recent success of his band, the Great Unknowns...
...same reflexive incredulity. And the reaction was not unique to 9/11. Whether they're in shipwrecks, hurricanes, plane crashes or burning buildings, people in peril experience remarkably similar stages. And the first one--even in the face of clear and urgent danger--is almost always a period of intense disbelief...
Across Washington, even the highest officials snapped their heads in disbelief upon hearing the news of the impending press conference. CIA Director Casey, who had not told the White House about Yurchenko's disappearance over the weekend, quickly called Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who in turn told the President. Reagan apparently showed little emotion, but others in the West Wing gathered in front of televisions to watch CNN's live broadcast of the conference. What they saw for the next hour was one of the most amazing public performances ever to emerge from the foggy world of spy intrigue...