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...self-awareness by the impending nuptials. The relationships seem to have been constructed to demonstrate the ravages of globalization: the groom, for example, has flown in from Houston and is clumsily out of touch with traditional Indian customs; the bride’s cousin begins an affair with a distant Australian relative whose western norms of sexual permissiveness complicate the coupling...
...recent past, Germans both inflicted and endured terrible suffering. With that history, it seems strange to say that Germans are lucky, but in one sense, they are. War is all around us, and yet it is untouchably distant. But Germans, says Grass, "understand what war means." Wars may be necessary, even just. But a nation that has lived through one knows that they are never good. --With reporting by Ursula Sautter/Bonn
...said Steve Mark, from Buffalo Grove, Ill. “If there’s anything I made sure I did not do, it was to even take a look at him…. I can’t imagine living close to so many cute girls, yet so distant from my life...
...knows,” he muses. “Writing a book is like scribbling a message and putting it in a bottle and throwing it overboard. You never know on what distant shore it will wash...
Even with a doctorate in music composition from Harvard, McLoskey has found professorship an almost unattainable goal. Still, music remains his first love, which means Mormon skateboarding will always be a distant second. In the meantime, McLoskey plans to continue longboarding for years to come, claiming that it is an art that can be enjoyed by people of all ages as long as they have the “dogtown and the Z-boys style” that McLoskey admires...