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...care of yourself, selfishness can lead to unhappiness; whereas sacrificing for loved ones brings lasting joy. Having an affair, while potentially exciting, can be emotionally destructive. Physical intimacy outside of marriage undermines self-esteem. Women need to make emotionally healthy choices. Laurie Stoker Buffalo, Minnesota, U.S. Having obtained a master's degree as a nurse practitioner with a specialty in women's health at 51, I am starting my own health-care practice at 57. You're right to applaud women who embrace midlife. For those of us over 50, things just keep getting better. It is a true time...
DIED. R.L. BURNSIDE, 78, ex-sharecropper and Mississippi blues master who first found fame in the 1990s with the documentary Deep Blues and his recordings for Fat Possum Records, based in Oxford, Miss.; in Memphis. His raw, unrehearsed sound soon drew a cadre of mostly white, alt-rock admirers, some of whom, like Jon Spencer, became collaborators; one of Burnside's pioneering 1998 blues-techno tunes, It's Bad You Know, was later featured on TV's The Sopranos...
DIED. JACK SLIPPER, 81, Scotland Yard detective who, despite his reputation as a master, will be remembered for his thwarted global pursuit of nemesis Ronald Biggs, one of the masked men who robbed a night mail train from Glasgow to London of £2.6 million ($7 million) in what became known as the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and who, though caught, soon escaped jail; reported in London. Slipper tracked Biggs to Rio de Janeiro in 1974 (greeting him with "Long time no see, Ronnie!"), but Brazilian officials refused to deport Biggs, who remained a fugitive until 2001, when...
...cram into one of the uncomfortable seats upstairs. Sen, in his heavy academic robes, began brilliantly, with a joke about how he had just been pestered by a dim-witted immigration official at Heathrow Airport who couldn't grasp the notion that an Indian like Sen could be the Master of Trinity College at Cambridge University. From then on, things went downhill. As Sen began unraveling his theories of personal identity, I realized that I disagreed with everything he said. Within a few minutes, I wanted to leave. Only the suspicion that it would be unpatriotic to walk out while...
Contradictions abound on the CD, but what you notice most is the music. West is a master of samples and drum loops, and co-producer Brion can play anything with strings. Together they make one of the better-sounding rap records in history. Diamonds from Sierra Leone features the Bassey sample, keyboards stolen from a Vegas lounge act and a horn section fit for a coronation. Gone opens with an Otis Redding sample (from It's Too Late) and a two-note piano melody. Then there's a thwack of percussion and what seems like eight different string sections playing...