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Usually I dread the G-8. for a journalist, it's the ultimate BOGSAT: a Bunch of Guys Sitting Around a Table. The guys do happen to lead the world's richest countries, but any really interesting exchanges at their annual get-togethers tend to get saved for their memoirs. Instead, we are treated to a ritual photo of the leaders in funny shirts to dress up a turgid communiqué, disgorged at a press center far, far from the action. But this year's meeting, at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland at the start of July, feels different. Alongside...
...replied, "You don't have too much time to stop and say, 'Hey, I'm a celebrity,' because such things mean nothing in the face of death." I read the piece, shuddered, then ran my eyes back over it, hoping to find a mention of cancer or some other dread affliction. No such luck. Fuentes was apparently referring to his age. I am 57 and feel happy and horny. Don't do this to me, Carlos. Orson Bean Venice, Calif. Abandoned Hope...
Although a sense of dread permeates each chapter, there are many instances of kindness. The family prospers for a time in France and Holland; members help to produce the first printed Bible and mix with the burghers of Amsterdam. While there is never a lack of assassins ready to throw the first stone, almost every generation encounters righteous gentiles without whom Jewish survival would have been impossible. Halter becomes an actor in the drama, much as Alex Haley did in Roots, piercing the narrative with his own meditations: "We are periodically asked to choose between the Land and the Book...
...voice as he said this. The Gods of Wisdom in Washington have determined that Bush is in a trough. His poll numbers are declining. His approval rating is back where it was-in the mid-40s-before it was artificially inflated during the 2004 campaign by the dread prospect that John Kerry might replace him. Social Security reform is widely assumed to be dead. The war in Iraq is stymied and losing public support. There is talk that Bush has squandered the goodwill he earned by winning re-election, that the Democrats' sapping obstructionist strategy has weakened him. There...
Short and frequent. Aim to exercise often, even two or three times a day, but keep the sessions short and sweet (10 to 15 minutes is plenty). If it hurts, stop, and if you dread your workout, change it. The pursuit of fitness should be a pleasure, not a punishment...