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...having a late lunch at her dinnertime. On special occasions - our wedding anniversary, my birthday last month - she will light a candle at her end, and I will play some appropriately mushy music on iTunes. (Hey, war correspondents can be romantic too.) If I try very hard, I can fool myself into believing that I'm not in the most dangerous place on earth. In Baghdad, a little self-delusion can help keep you sane...
...Marvel must focus its energy on making its movies successful. That means getting its house in order and curtailing further executive turnover. As the Motley Fool's Tim Beyers noted, "There's simply no way the comic-book publisher will become a movie mogul with a mishmash organization." Even if it does have superhuman strength on its side...
...Before leaving for Spain, I brushed up on my Spanish by reviewing the nuances of idiomatic expressions and practicing my accent, hoping for a shot at being mistaken for a local, or at least, a Spanish speaker. My preparation however, fell far short of my goal. To fool the locals here would require learning an entirely different language—Catalán.At first there was no problem: The hospital staff with whom I worked always spoke Castellan—Iberian Spanish—and the patients would in turn respond in Castellan. Everyone accommodated and willingly put aside their...
...code of romantic drama, the two characters in Gabrielle may seem divided with almost Manichean simplicity: he is the brain, she the heart and other organs. But for all Jean's powers of analysis, he's a fool for thinking he understands his wife. And though he's the chatty one, she has an arsenal of ways to hurt him: describing her lover's body, for instance, in intimate terms she may never have used with him, and invidiously comparing Jean to her lover. ("The thought of your sperm inside me is unbearable," she says. "But not his," Jean proposes...
...Asked about the scuffle in a local TV interview on April 22, McKinney demurred, then marched off the set and, forgetting she was still miked, called her aide a "fool." Last weekend, she skipped two televised debates. Yet none of this is likely to harm her candidacy. They may even help...