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...months, Phillip Buck, 69, an evangelical pastor from Seattle, Washington sat in a jail cell in northeastern China his health deteriorating, not knowing when-or even if-he would get out and see his family in the U.S. again. The only thing he knew, he wrote in a letter from the jailhouse earlier this year, is that his cause was just...
...race and students boast that scattered around the campus are dollar bills held down by rocks, tangible evidence of an honor code so entrenched that if a dollar falls on campus soil, it stays there until the owner claims it. Kenyon in Ohio includes a paragraph in its acceptance letter that is entirely personal to the particular student: good job on the essay, nice season in basketball. The big schools can't do that--"and it's making a difference," says Sharon Merrow Cuseo, dean at Los Angeles' Harvard-Westlake Academy. "I think of my students as cynical consumers...
...food and wine were launched with his support. And he maintained his countless friendships with seemingly effortless kindnesses. Something-a book, a trinket he'd found rummaging in an antique shop-would catch his magpie eye and remind him of someone; days later it would arrive with a letter in his bold flowing hand. He would spend hours covered in clay and oxide dust making ceramic tiles, assembling grand mosaics destined for a friend's winery wall...
...make some sacrifice." For now, Severgnini's contribution is to keep writing, the one thing he'll admit to doing well. "The only thing I could do since I was a child was write. During my military service, I created a lot of couples - I was a good love-letter writer." Now, instead of matchmaking, he maintains "Italians," the daily newspaper Corriere della Serra's popular online column, his attempt to cultivate what in La Bella Figura he calls "the curious glue that, despite everything, binds the nation." This persistent, if modest, voice may be what bridges the gap between...
...lavishes extra fascination on Arnold Schwarzenegger: man, meme, Governor, bodybuilder, robot assassin--a man who cannot pronounce the letter r even though there's one in California and three in his name. It still boggles her that a celebrity can trade an actor's fame for a politician's popularity and have it be accepted as legal tender, one for one. Schwarzenegger's sheer blankness interests Wilentz too. "He's a pure narcissist," she writes. "Contentless, and in this way highly appropriate to his times...