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...gang inspire him to pack it with particularly knee-slapping scenes and to reenact them for anyone willing to listen. And since his friends tirelessly reference TV and movies, he now feels more comfortable being social via the show’s ideas. Finally, with a new eye for absurdity, he is thinking like a comic outside the den. The other day he told me about a letter home from his teacher regarding their class pets, complaining that, while at last permitted to feed the bearded lizards a few wax worms each morning, he could not administer a shave...
...were sort of mourning those things: "Oh, it's too bad I'll never get married." In other ways, you're relieved: "I'll never have to get married." So when our number began to come up, particularly after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court of Review painted a bulls-eye on our backs as far as my mother was concerned [she favored a wedding], it was hard not just to feel joyful about it. It was hard not to feel a little ambivalent about it, because this is something I never thought I'd have to face...
...Ducale plays constantly with your sense of time. Look at Ideal City or peer down the seemingly endless spiral staircase in one of the towers, and you feel the chasm between past and present. Then you turn a corner into the duke's study, and the centuries disappear. From eye level to the floor, the room is a series of wood panels with exquisite inlaid images of Federico's favorite things--musical instruments, suits of armor and loads of books. Above, there are 28 portraits arranged in two rows. The lower row is devoted to great religious figures; the upper...
...they'll hand it to you on a silver platter. If they don't, you say, 'Well, do you find yourself more interested in involvement with women or with men?' If they say, 'I've never dated,' you say, 'Well, when you walk down the street, who catches your eye?" And so, gently but relentlessly, Plante, one of several dozen U.S. therapists who screen candidates for Roman Catholic seminaries, attempts to ensure that the church knows the sexual orientation of one more would-be priest...
...Fazio melodrama comes as Italy--the world's seventh largest economy--continues to struggle with European economic integration. Cross-border bank mergers are common in the euro zone, but not in Italy, where the banking system remains largely a fortress under the eye of the all-powerful central banker. Although Fazio no longer sets the price of money, he has wielded every ounce of his notable clout. His stated goal is for Italian banks to be at the service of Italian businesses. In practice, this has meant keeping foreign firms out. It's a shortsighted view and dangerous: some blame...