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...dinner with her husband to celebrate her 44th birthday. "She called that day and told us Ken had a big surprise for her. She sounded hopeful," says Dubay. Oppy loved her work as an optometrist, was popular with the patients, even getting the cranky ones to loosen up and laugh with her. The one person she couldn't get through to was her husband, whose affairs saddened and angered her at the same time. She had considered divorce, but in the end, she held on, hoping Stahl would change. She had even taken several weeks off that summer to care...
...public's idolatrous expectations. His hostility comes off as personal beefs directed at particular individuals rather than undifferentiated hatred - there's as much confession here as declamation - and if the cinematic depictions of violence are disturbing, so are Martin Scorsese's, only Marty doesn't usually make me laugh. Eminem might as well have "caveat emptor" tattooed on his forehead; any album that starts with "I'm Slim Shady and I'm going to kill you" should be taken with a heavy dose of salt - let's just hope that that bitterness doesn't overwhelm the next...
...loss but somehow, as the cartoonist Art Spiegelman observed, "still kept everything warm and fuzzy." By fusing adult ideas with a world of small children, Schulz reminded us that although childhood wounds remain fresh, we have the power as adults to heal ourselves with humor. If we can laugh at the daily struggles of a bunch of funny-looking kids and in their worries recognize the adults we've become, we can free ourselves. This alchemy was the magic in Schulz's work, the alloy that fused the Before and After elements of his own life, and it remains...
...that it's so hard to keep it a secret. And old habits die hard. How else to explain the woman working the switchboard at the Bush-Cheney transition headquarters the other day who picked up the phone and said, "Bush-Quayle." She quickly corrected herself with an embarrassed laugh, but who could really blame...
...Northeastern would have the last laugh, outscoring the Crimson, 15-4 in the last six minutes. Two quick Williams buckets gave the Huskies the lead again. Harvard, unable to make a shot, never really threatened for the remainder of the game as Northeastern slowly pulled away...