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...impossible to resist comparing the America of 1957 with the America of 2007-- and finding the modern version wanting. There was a clear-eyed quality to the U.S. commitment to space and a frank understanding of what it would take to get there. This wasn't an effort built on tax credits for willing industries or bipartisan earmarking. It wasn't a program financed by cooked books or off-budget accounting. Most important, it was sustained by appealing not to what scared us but rather to what elevated us. There's no need to invoke WMD when...
...also she’s really funny. But what keeps you coming back for more is the fact that, beneath the technical innovation and hilarious writing, Maria’s tale of living at home after a series of career failures describes clinical depression in such a frank, open way that you’d be heartless if you didn’t feel a deep, cathartic belly laugh rise from your guts. Catch her before she’s famous.PUBLIC SCORN INDEX: 0.5%—Staff writer Abe J. Riesman can be reached at riesman@fas.harvard.edu...
Marie-Pierre Lannelongue, until recently a senior editor at French Elle, admires Hermann's informal but frank style. "She'll ask, 'Have you seen our new Downtown bag? Could you put the Downtown in Elle? And how are your kids?'" Lannelongue says. "It's part natural and part calculated?and so efficient...
...really, that some of the most sought-after scents this fall look like real gems. Leiber's eponymous first scent?bearing the refined shape of an Art Deco diamond, left?was designed for a "woman who appreciates what a little luxury can do for your spirit," says creative director Frank Zambrelli. Emporio Armani's Diamonds bottle, right, is sharply faceted, for the more audacious...
...Frank and Lisa Smoot, a San Jose couple who missed their connecting flight to New Hampshire, thought they'd use the downtime afforded them to scope out the scene for themselves. "We're bored to death of sitting around the airport, so I thought we'd check it out," Frank says shortly after his wife snapped a digital photo of him giving a thumbs-up next to the bathroom sign. "It's just so bizarre to think that I can go stand next to where one of our 100 Senators met his political demise...