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There are many ways to respond to a setback. While Napoleon's loss may have been the beginning of the end for him, and while Tyson went on to bite Evander Holyfield's ear off--among other inauspicious acts--the Yankees won the next two American League pennants...
...hell reserved for any television network that ever opened a broadcast with a story about Tonya Harding. And I detest local news stations that never once offer a decent, thoughtful story about education, but are always on the scene the moment someone falls down a manhole or gets an ear bitten...
...think that living in the Radcliffe Quadrangle is probably a lot like having a third Ear. There would definitely be nuisances that came along with that extra ear, including ill- Fitting hats, piercing dilemmas and embarassing Explanations every time you changed barbers. But I imagine that the most annoying thing in the world about having a third ear would be people telling you that it must be great to have an extra ear, saying things like, "I bet you really get your money's worth out of surround sound...
...main work he does as an actor," says Billy Bob Thornton, whose Sling Blade was partly inspired by Boo Radley, and who plays a pivotal cameo in The Apostle. "He observes characters." Screenwriter Horton Foote (Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), who recommended that Duvall play Boo Radley, praises his "eye and ear for specifics of character. He has a feel for the Southern idiom, but he brings variations to it. For Tender Mercies he tape-recorded people, then studied the accent till he got it right...
...fear the amount of influence the media have in shaping the perception of events, a misgiving that was reinforced by your theme, "Pictures from a Year the News Turned Emotional." That fear is, unfortunately, justified when good judgment is not exercised. The close-up photograph of Evander Holyfield's ear not only turned my stomach (again) but also made me ashamed of our culture. Perhaps you should try harder to ensure that the method you use to invoke emotion in your readers is not sensationalistic. SARA PILAR BRYANT Melrose, Mass...