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...Eizo Matsumura, a photographer who has known Murakami since his jazz-club years, tells a story of that voice. Due to a hearing difficulty, Matsumura usually needs to read lips in conversation, except with close relatives and friends, but he can hear Murakami perfectly. "I don't know how to explain it," he says. "Maybe it's the vibrations, maybe it's something else." It almost seems too perfectly poetic, like something out of, well, a Murakami story, but the joy that rises in Matsumura's face can't be faked. "I can hear his voice," he says. "I always...
...until recently with virtually no oversight by a compliant Congress. The sooner this Administration and its passive enablers in Congress are out of office, the sooner we will find the means to extricate ourselves from this fiasco. May Bush go back to Texas and never be heard from again except as a very bad history lesson. John Griffin, Walnut Creek, Calif...
...which two competitive chefs fall in love; and Becoming Jane, in which Jane Austen has to choose between love and proper behavior. Coming in September is Good Luck Chuck, in which every girl Chuck sleeps with goes on to marry the next guy she meets. All of them, except the Austen, are what's known in the romance-novel business as HEAs (happily-ever-afters), and none of them are remotely stirring, although Good Luck Chuck is spectacularly off-putting. "Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh," says Mike Newell, director of Four Weddings...
...Cobb. People didn't like Cobb for various reasons. He's sort of notorious. But 80 years later, notorious is cool. His memorabilia is going up. Walter Johnson was the greatest pitcher of his day, but what do we know about him? What do we know about Cy Young except for the trophy? What do we know about Eddie Collins? They were nice guys - and it's too hard to write books about nice guys. Fifty years from now, Bonds is going to be the cool badass dude. The future generations are going to say: Why does Grandpa...
...blue skies in the capital shows that much work still needs to be done. On most days it seems unwise to go for a jog, much less run an Olympic marathon. But Beijing could have one unique contingency plan. "A temporary measure - which perhaps no government in the world except for China could do - is to shut down cars," says Zhang Hongjun, a lawyer and former official in China's State Environmental Protection Agency. "That must be a reality for the Olympics." City officials say they haven't decided on specific plans for reducing car traffic during the Games...