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...come next year, as I’m shopping that dreaded Lit-C core, my mind will be less on Greek myths than on daydreams of my skis carving through fresh powder, during the intersession that could have been. Everybody should treasure this last intersession—I know I will...
...physical exertion supposed to be expressed in grimaces? I thought of the face as a pressure-relief valve that helps emit the pain the body is experiencing. But the trainer suggested I think about it the other way around - that controlling the face can help control the mind...
...Leaning on the walls and lying all over shelves are sketches that Mr. Wyeth has made. He has sketches in color which make small pieces of the picture. When he sits down to work on the painting he has to fit the pieces together in his mind. The hardest part is just going on and on and on to finish the job after you're over the excitement of suddenly knowing what you want to do and the fast sketches...
...Bush clearly had these examples in mind as he wove an inventory of the familiar American virtues into the fabric of his urgent priorities. "In the 21st century," he said, "security and prosperity at home depend on the expansion of liberty abroad." This was one more formulation of Bush's central philosophy, which he said is threatened by the rise of an isolationist and protectionist mood. "If America does not lead the cause of freedom," he continued, "that cause will...
...write in The Survivors Club about the "myth of hopelessness." People think that all plane crashes are fatal. That's because of TWA 800 and Egypt Air and ValuJet and Pan Am 103 and all these other flight names and numbers that are emblazoned in our mind because everybody died. But in fact, if you look at the last two major incidents involving passenger jets in the United States, in Denver and now this one - I'm assuming from the CNN reporting that they think everyone is safe - but in both of the major incidents, the plane that went...