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There are two kinds of memory: the official ones that belong to the world in highlight films, and the private ones that are preserved, if at all, in dusty photo albums. Some Olympic moments from Barcelona will now pass into the collective unconscious -- Charles Barkley dunking, Gail Devers smiling, Derek Redmond in tears hobbling on his pulled hamstring toward the 400-m finish line, leaning on his father's shoulder. Others will be as unmarked as the snapshots the Bhutanese archers take back of a city full of boats...
...treat the doctor's deep- rooted angst. Soon their roles reverse: healer becomes sufferer and, voila!, the psychoanalytic revolution begins. In WHEN NIETZSCHE WEPT (Basic Books; $20), psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom imagines an encounter between two < real people who never met. The novel is strewn with italic sentences to highlight his characters' head-smacking insights. Still, their relationship carries a certain poignancy as they discover their common roots: delusion and loneliness...
...years the boy is sexually molested by an uncle, battered by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. He remains serenely withdrawn. When the spell is broken -- when he re-enters reality -- he seems unmarked. "I'm free," he sings in the second act's stunning highlight, as he confronts his tormenters with confidence, not malice...
...Women are the majority of voters in America," Brown said at the convention last Monday. There are major differences between Democrats and Republicans on child care, choice and parental leave, he said. "We're on the right side of the issues...we're going to highlight these issues...
People are more than willing to pay for this entertainment, and the team has been booked for Boston's Fourth of July Celebration, where Weil says more than half a million people are expected. For the highlight of that show, Thomas will jump off the ramp and sail over a Honda Civic...