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...Wilner: Absolutely. He was very uneasy with Luce. They were not on speaking terms for the most part during the last year of Hadden's life. Trust and loyalty were so important to Hadden. He was vulnerable. Despite being so charismatic and so popular, he had an inner feeling that he didn't really belong, that he was an eccentric person, and he always felt lonely within that no one could truly understand him. So Luce was somebody he was able to form a deep bond with because they had such a close intellectual connection which, for both Hadden...
...secret. But, as with many tortured souls who have sacrificed their bodies for their craft, past tragedies seem to motivate present poetry. Since Sparklehorse’s bizarrely-titled 1995 debut “Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot,” Linkous has experimented with different means of inner exorcism: each resultant work more cohesive than the last. While all of his songs evoke eerie dreamscapes—horizons of teeth, pianos on fire, dying horses—Linkous’ two most recent albums seem more self-aware. Because of his lyrical opacity, one gets the sense that Linkous is assembling bits...
...carrying the flickering flame of belief, these stories are beautifully crafted articles of faith. Comparing man's plight to that of the indestructible cockroach, Dulcie Porter muses: "The cockie statistics were impressive, but when it came to survival you couldn't beat people, that was her view." Such robust inner lives are alone worth celebrating in these miraculous short stories...
...botched his own handoff to Al Gore - was brought in to admonish delegates to "stay in the future business, and the people will get it"; a sensible warning, but probably insufficient to rein in the discord. The truest note of the week was struck by someone in Brown's inner circle, who should be enthusiastic about being on No. 10's threshold. "I can't figure out why I'm so depressed," says the ardent Brownite...
...chairman of three major nonprofits. Since 1991, I've been the chairman of Carnegie Hall, and of the Cornell Medical College since 1996. I'm also the chairman of the National Academy Foundation, which started 25 years ago to show people in inner-city schools that there is an opportunity education is the key to unlocking that future. If we don't do that, the divide between the wealthy and those who don't have anything is going to get even wider. If that happens, this country is not going to be a leader in this world 20 years from...