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...chapters in the middle of the book, "Fun and Games in Washington" and "Special Men in My Life." Not all that special, or all that fun, apparently, because the audio book skips the two chapters entirely. Missing is any note of her affair with Brooke, not to mention her flings with future Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, Virginia Senator John Warner and several more...
...came under the tutelage of a cross-eyed swami (Ben Kingsley, giving the goose to his Oscar-winning Gandhi). "I want to become a guru so people will like me," young Maurice tells his master, "so I will love myself." I find such self-knowledge, not to mention self-absorption, appealing in the nakedness of its need...
...politicians who loudly tout their faith are usually touting membership in one of the Christian sects, and rarely Judaism (and even more rarely Islam). The political climate in the U.S. makes it useful to boast about one's belief in Jesus and the Christian God, and political suicide to mention any faith that is focused in a different direction. Sadly, what really should be the valuable part of any faith - namely, the way one's integrity guides one to live it - is not something that needs advertising. Deborah Greymoon, Cascade, Colo...
...facing," he concluded. "Will Americans accept him as 'one of us'?" I remember thinking, Ah, Tim. We're getting old. Maybe Big Russ and my parents--and you and I--wonder if someone named Barack Obama is "one of us," but not our kids. I figured I'd mention it to him next time we talked. Now there won't be a next time. I can't get my head around that yet, except--it's so, so sad. He was loving this election, as much as any we'd covered. I just can't believe...
Exercise (not least your heart), eat blueberries and walnuts, and keep that belly fat down. I read it all twice, but found no mention of the effects of how we use our brains! I (in my seventies) will keep on exercising those gray cells, to the best of my waning abilities. Steinar Olaussen, BAERUM, NORWAY