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John Paul, unshakably conservative, cannot be accused of political correctness. His apology has no taint of cheap grace or feel-good remorse. In recent years, apologies for historic wrongs have become a bit of a trend. The Southern Baptist Convention apologized for its church's past support of slavery and asked the forgiveness of blacks. The Japanese Prime Minister apologized for Japan's behavior in World War II. The Canadian government apologized for programs injuring native peoples...
...walking briskly for 30 min. four times a week. If you have diabetes, high-blood pressure or high cholesterol, get treated. Talk to your doctor about whether you should take an aspirin a day. "These things are so simple that people don't take them seriously," says Dr. Elsa-Grace Giardina, a cardiologist at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Sometimes the obvious remedies are still the best...
...should some lucky Harvard athlete again grace "The Price is Right" stage in Television City, be sure to say "Hi" to Bob from all of us at Harvard. Oh, and remember to bid one dollar when the person next to you bids $1000 on a Walkman...
Hence the critic's dance: parry censors with one hand; hold your nose with the other. And it's not limited to TV. Look at the art world, where aesthetes regularly defend the rights of heavy-handed art--Sensation, Santa on a cross--that would be lucky to grace the editorial page of a second-rate alternative newsrag...
...crackles and sparks like diary pages set on fire. Naess is a 24-year-old British-born singer-songwriter who now lives in New York City. Her music draws on folk and rock, and some of her songs are subtly propelled by tape loops. Her voice has an evanescent grace that will remind some of Beth Orton; her lyrics, in contrast, often have the confessional bluntness of Liz Phair. The best songs on this album--the sweetly numb title track, the jangling All I Want--are dreamlike but not soporific, confident yet not overpowering...