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...they win again? In her memoir, Hillary closed by writing of her final moments in the White House Grand Foyer. The longtime butler there "received my last goodbye embrace and turned it into a joyous dance. We skipped and twirled across the marble floor," she writes. "My husband cut in, taking me in his arms as we waltzed together down the long hall." A farewell, perhaps. Or maybe the Clintons will yet want to have another dance...
...certainly found a way. If it were possible to calculate the frequency of mots justes in a piece of prose, Franzen's ranking would be through the roof. He puts up Updikean numbers. His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail." A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth." The California towhee, one of his favorite birds, is like "a friend whose energy and optimism had escaped the confines...
...court appearance, a warrant was issued for his arrest. Karr spent the next five years on the run in Europe, Central America and Asia, working as a teacher wherever he could and eventually landing in Bangkok. When police moved in last week, he was living in a shabby ninth-floor hotel room. He had just started yet another job, as a second-grade teacher...
After Karr is returned to the U.S. this week, prosecutors will move to run tests to see whether his DNA matches samples found under JonBenet's fingernails and in her underwear. If they match, all the questions about his credibility will drop to the floor. If they don't, the murder of JonBenet Ramsey will go back into the unsolved-mystery file. And so will the story of John Mark Karr...
...become as much about the spectacle as about the science, many AIDS researchers have stopped attending. Yes, the scope of the meeting and the now predictable demonstrations from activists can be daunting, but it's only by bringing together the doctors in the field with the activists on the floor that the biggest challenges in the epidemic can be overcome. It was the activists pushing for much-needed treatments that accelerated development and approval of the antiretroviral drugs, and it's this kind of combined effort that will be needed to prevent HIV-AIDS from worsening in Africa, and from...