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...Other times, the cameraman is a sort of character, scurrying to catch up with the action. Or trying not to. In an upcoming episode, says creator Mitchell Hurwitz, Lucille starts making out with Oscar in an effort to make his brother jealous. "The cameraman starts to drift away, like he doesn't want to see it," Hurwitz says. "Then another character comes in, and he has to go back...
Which candidate is better equipped to deal with such threats? In attempting to draw a contrast with Kerry, Bush likes to say, "If America shows uncertainty or weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy." Yet both candidates have shifted course on many major foreign policy issues, ultimately arriving at positions that resemble each other's more than either man likes to admit. But if both have shown a capacity to alter their policies, both cling to disparate world views. The problem is that neither man's philosophy on its own is entirely satisfying in the wake...
...brainchild of American psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, differs from standard group therapy in several ways. Most importantly, a psychiatrist or psychologist leads the 90-min. sessions, working from the original premise of SEGT: that serious illness offers a chance for personal growth. "Much of life involves periods in which people drift somewhat aimlessly, taking life for granted," the three therapists involved in the Melbourne trial write in a new book, A Life to Live: A Group Journey with Advanced Breast Cancer (PsychOz Publications). "Only . . . when death is faced . . . does an authenticity emerge that brings with it the capacity to live life...
...disappointments can determine an election, need look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most...
Tomahna isn't real, but as you watch the leaves sway in the breeze and the clouds drift across the sky, it's easy to forget that. It's one of several interconnected virtual worlds that players explore in the new computer game Myst IV: Revelation, due out Sept. 28 from Ubisoft...