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Last spring Kelly K. Johnson-Arbor '96 was stunned when she read an electronic mail message from her friend Grace...
...Kelly, I know this is crazy, but I'm actually bisexual. I haven't told any-one, But I think cunnilingus sounds great.--Grace...
...History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). Thomas' account is richer in detail than Prescott's, more balanced in its assessment of the Mexica (pronounced mesheeca; the author insists that this is a more authentic name for the conquered people than Aztec). But Prescott's narrative has a grace and flow that Conquest simply cannot match -- not least because in the latter work countless sentences contain a hedging "presumably," "perhaps" or "it must have seemed." It's all those unsettling new facts...
Sharp-eyed and keen, Glennie reads lips so fluently that an interlocutor would never know she cannot hear. In performance she watches the conductor and orchestra with a fierce intensity, picking up visual cues and bounding from instrument to instrument with the grace of a natural athlete. She often gets a workout: Dominic Muldowney's astringent Concerto for Percussion, subtitled Figure in a Landscape, which she performed with the Cincinnati Symphony late last month, employs cymbals, marimba, Japanese bells, a pair of bongos, two congas, a vibraphone, four small drums, four wood blocks and several boobams, which are tuned cylindrical...
Secret Service agents are inherently funny. This fact is the saving grace of "Guarding Tess." The basic premise is mindlessly simple: Special Agent Doug Chesnic (Nicholas Cage) guards eccentric former First Lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). Doug dreams of someday being in the line of fire, but dutifully performs "the worst job in the Secret Service" because the President wants...