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...price of admission to the Beatrice Street Y is equivalent to one New York subway ride. The profound emotions shaping South Africa come with no extra charge. The performance is in Zulu, but spectators with no understanding of the language can grasp the feeling. Evocative words such as "AIDS," "lover boy," "our parliament" and "Mandela" are at the foreground. Hope and gloom duel in the background. Isicathamiya is South Africa's blues...
...some accidents, and in a crowd that size, accidents generally mean casualties. As one Saudi spokesman pointed out, you have to take the crowd control headache that Americans experience each year packing 100,000 people into a football stadium for the Super Bowl, and multiply it by 20 to grasp the scale of the problem faced by the Saudi authorities in managing the pilgrimage. They spend the whole year preparing for it, and there's a government ministry dedicated entirely to organizing the hajj...
...overhyped package. Hogg's book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (Ballantine Books), is the latest phenomenon in the business of selling parenting advice to the sleep deprived. Hogg knows from her years as a baby nurse to the rich, powerful (and apparently clueless) Hollywood elite that new parents will grasp at any straw to help deal with life with a newborn. Her book is best read by parents who are so exhausted they won't notice that Hogg, like my aunt Lena, is telling them what they probably already know...
...usable therapy. Of course, despite all this tantalizing promise, treatments, not to mention cures, are years, possibly decades away. Scientists involved in the mapping stress that while the latest descriptions are critical to an eventual understanding of our genetic makeup, we are still far from anything resembling a comprehensive grasp of human...
...hours as he had for Al Gore in eight years. Clinton later told friends, "Bush really connects. It's a mistake to underestimate him." And after seeing Clinton in May, at St. Patrick's Cathedral for John Cardinal O'Connor's funeral--Clinton reaching across four mourners to grasp Bush's hand during the Sign of Peace--Bush said, "I don't always respect the guy, but you gotta like him." Maybe they see the scamp in each other. At the Inaugural Day coffee, it was as if old friends were back in town. When Chelsea seemed teary amid...