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...perfect dialogue; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will's thoughts (he compares the workings of his brain to "a toddler in a room full of new guests"); and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions (with the sentence "His socks were white and Van Horned up around his calves," a reference to chronically uncool NBA player Keith Van Horn, Eggers may have enriched the English language by a verb). At their best, Will and Hand, like Vladimir and Estragon, have genuine existential pathos; at their worst they're a little jejune, a pair of Holden...
...east. To get your bearings, take a ferry from the Eminonu docks up the Bosporus, stopping for lunch at one of the fishing villages near the Black Sea, passing a series of sumptuous villas and Ottoman houses along the way. European Istanbul is itself divided by the Golden Horn, an inlet off the Bosporus. The Old City, or Sultanahmet, to the south of the Golden Horn, is where you'll find all the main sights, including the Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sofia, the Hippodrome and the Grand Bazaar, a maze of some 4,000 shops. This small area...
...slowed behind traffic on one of the roads through Central Park, and I found myself tapping my foot. The tune on the cab's stereo was Arabic but with a catchy, bubbling horn section. I asked who was playing. A Moroccan group, said the cabbie. He told me its name. Did I want to know what it was singing? Certainly. It was a plea to Israel from the Arab people. The chorus was, "We have the same father. Why do you treat us this way?" Who might the father be? I asked. "Ibrahim," he said. "The song is called Ismail...
Uniformed officers then stood at attention as a lone bugler, standing on a jagged edge of the pit, played Taps on his horn...
...aware of the complaints, does not seem to want to get involved. (Supportkids' CEO, Casey Hoffman, worked on Bush's transition team.) "If a family chooses to engage a private collection firm, parents ought to have that option, so long as the agreement is clear up front," says Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the Department of Health and Human Services. But some critics of the private sector urge the Administration to do more. "Here we have an industry where some of the companies, by almost any measure, are alleged to be doing bad things," says Vicki...