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...almost always have to choose sides, at least for a while. This usually means that the women have an easier time. "Women are trained from an early age to be relationship oriented," says Carter. "And they're very often the ones who have been the keepers of the social flame." Men, often unfamiliar with the mechanics of socializing, are doubly at a loss when they have to deal with feeling worthless as well. "Very often the closest friend of a man is his wife," Carter says. "When he loses her, he's lost his connectedness with the world...
...name is Sugar," Faber's heroine tells us, "or if it isn't, I know no better." Sugar's body is for rent, but her mind is entirely her own. Nineteen, tall and flame-haired, she's an intellectual prodigy who charms her johns with inspired conversation and uninhibited bedcraft, then scribbles away at a novel while they snooze off their drink in her bed. (Faber's descriptions of lovemaking in an age of abundant undergarments and no antiperspirants are admirably frank...
...Eternal Flame...
...around 7:30 p.m., all of those ceremonies paused to watch on giant TV screens as Bloomberg was joined by numerous dignitaries, including Secretary of State Powell, in a ceremony to light an eternal flame at the Sphere Memorial in Battery Park...
This evening, there will be a ceremony in Battery Park to light an Eternal Flame in “The Sphere,” a sculpture which sat atop the granite fountain at the center of the World Trade Center Plaza, and candle-lighting vigils throughout the five boroughs...