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...army convoy rattled through Al-Adhamiya like a carnival roller coaster, each turn as blind as the next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved warily in the darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under...
...newest entrant in the Supermom Lit category is Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies. A book like this has its place, but it's a small place. Only one out of twenty kids in America will ever be cared for by a nanny. Nevertheless, the book's authors seem to think having a nanny at home is indispensable for a middle-class American family...
...Over the last three years, I interviewed 700 families across America, asking them what they'd had to deal with. Extremely few mentioned the kinds of problems diagnosed by Supermom lit. Rather, they had old-fashioned problems like infidelity, mental illness, teen drug use, poverty, racial prejudice, custody battles, emotional frigidity and marital boredom. Every family in America has had challenges to struggle through. But the kinds of problems people actually deal with are covered by few people besides Oprah and Dr. Phil - which helped explain why they're the cultural phenomena they...
Mystic Rosa 99 Mt. Auburn St. (617) 868-3063 Palm Reading, $25 TAROT CARD READING $35. You already know you’ll get a B+ in Lit B. But that whole grandmother dying thing? Who knew...
...very diligently.” She says that most of the “little animals,” as she calls them, were gifts from others, including her roommate, Anne B. Romatowski ’07. Romatowski says that it all started during a Lit and Arts B lecture. She reached into her pocket to get a pen, and out popped a little plastic figurine. “Two days later,” says Romatowski, “one of them showed up in [Riley’s] university mailbox.” Romatowski declined...