Word: edwards
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...destiny that links Bella to Edward? That's what she feels shortly after she leaves desert-dry Phoenix, where her mother has just married a semipro baseball player, to spend time with her police-chief father (Billy Burke) in rainy, misty Forks, Wash. Bella calls herself "the suffering-in-silence type," but instantly all the nice kids in her junior class are clamoring to be her BFF. Not so Edward. His pained, brooding, utterly irresistible gaze says, I have depths you don't want to dive in. After sitting next to Bella once, he has to take some sick days...
...Twilight, Stephenie Meyer's best seller, to know where its secret pulses reside. Just see the movie version and listen to the reactions of the girls in the theater (TIME surveys the fangirls behind the Twilight phenomenon). There's an audible shiver as they first spy the teen vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), his impossibly gorgeous face caked in a mime's pallor, sitting in biology class next to young Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart). When he holds an apple in his hands to present to her - the novel's cover image - the girls emit an awestruck sigh, as if they...
...word among the local Native Americans (who in movies like this are never wrong) is that Edward and his family are vampires. That doesn't stop Bella from falling into a love whose toxicity is its lure, just as Edward is risking being with someone he's severely tempted to devour. Her nearness is like vampire heroin; his love for her has become his religion and his sin. Edward knows he should just say no, but, as he tells her, "I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore...
...early backer of Obama's campaign, the soft-spoken Daschle was invaluable in helping bring aboard some of the Democratic establishment to back him against the formidable Hillary Clinton. When Senator Edward Kennedy decided to endorse the freshman Senator, he called Daschle, not Obama, to deliver the news. Much of Daschle's political organization joined the Obama effort - among them, Steve Hildebrand, who engineered Obama's field operation, and Anita Dunn, a top strategist. (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...concede that there are times I wish Bella were a bit more Buffy, slaying vampires and not just falling for them. Edward's gallantry is noble, but you wish Bella didn't need to be saved all the time, that she were less clumsy or prone to fainting. But in these days of supergirls, when our daughters seem to be confident and competent in ways I couldn't have fathomed at 14, I'm not so worried about some embedded antifeminist message. I watched way more TV growing up than my kids do and read more junk and seem...