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...woman who Gary visits nightly. Although her character is not bound to the plot with hoops of steel, she gets to play the always-welcome role of explainer, which she does with maturity and a small dose of convincing senility. Theodora Konetsovska, a visiting student from Williams, plays the ghost of Gary's dead sister, Sarah. The script calls for too many appearances of Sarah's ghost for her role to be as poignant as it could, but Konetsovska deals with her ubiquity by creating a dynamic, puzzling ghost who is as much a part of the unfolding drama...
...reports that the U.S.-backed military is cooperating with paramilitary groups that have killed thousands of civilians won't do anything to allay the fears of legislators on Capitol Hill concerned that deepening involvement in Colombia could eventually draw the U.S. into an intractable civil war (the ghost of Vietnam was invoked more than once in Thursday's congressional hearing on the aid package). But whether or not the Colombian military is using paramilitary killers to fight a dirty war, legislators may also find cause for concern in the progress on the war on drugs in the Latin American state...
Something more subtle is afoot elsewhere on the traditional right. Pentecostalism, while it shares the Baptists' scriptural conservatism, relies heavily on the workings of the Holy Ghost, which are as likely to touch a woman as a man. Women seldom preach unaided, but Jim and Tammy-style co-pastors are common. And while megachurches may seem the creatures of their high-powered male senior ministers, the bulk of their person-to-person spiritual business is done not on supercrowded Sundays but in dozens of small weekday prayer, study or self-help groups--often led by lay women...
...Mann's diverse blend of music ranges from the sultry and ambient "Calling It Quits" to the infectious pop of "Ghost World." Yet as a whole, they gel to form one of the best albums in recent memory...
...sense--this is it. Jelly-colored onscreen buttons pulsate as if alive. Menu borders are translucent, allowing you to see the documents under them. Sliders glow luminously. And there's animation: dismiss an unneeded window with a mouse click, and it disappears in a blur like Casper the Friendly Ghost being sucked up a chimney...