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...knows how Baiul will handle her new celebrity? She dotes on a stuffed rabbit given to her by another idol, skater Jill Trenary. She is a fountain of emotion, weeping at good news or bad. Her American agent, Michael Rosenberg, is exultant at the gold. Asked about his strategy for his young client, he says, "I see her as the next Judy Garland." For the coming phase, Baiul will need all the determination that brought her so far so fast, because that statement is enough to make you weep...
...speaks fluent Arabic, as he demonstrated by performing an Islamic prayer call in Syria while accompanying Jackson on a mission to secure the release of downed U.S. airman Robert Goodman in 1984. His mansion mingles massive concrete panels with delicate stained glass, marble floors, crystal chandeliers and a fountain between the living and dining rooms. But he shares it with several aides as well as his wife of 36 years, Khadijah (formerly Betsy), and some of their nine children...
Consequently, no attempt to reconstruct approaches to aging will change this ineluctable fact. Betty Friedan tries valiantly in her book, The Fountain of Age, to reformulate society's attitude towards aging. Because aging, with its attendant existential dilemmas marks the beginning of the end, these attempts will always be futile. We do not want to go quietly the night...
This, of course, is not important. The important thing is that we had already been identified as optimists so that from our optimistic corner we could discuss that fountain and think about drinking those five kegs of beer. We then heard that on this "remarkably calm and peaceful day" in Sarajevo, as one foreign reporter put it, "only" 18 people, including three children, were wounded by "a few wayward bullets." Truly a peaceful...
...faces. A year ago, days and even weeks would go by before you heard about someone you knew who was killed by a sniper's bullet or a shell. Now this kind of news comes every day. That's precisely why it would be so nice to build that fountain by the cathedral, full of water and light. And to be happy, smiling and optimistic, just the way we have already been envisioned by all those who carry out great decisions and great ultimatums in the name of historical happiness...