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...reminiscent of Czech writer Milan Kundera’s character Sabina in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, whose lover wants her to visit Palermo. He asks how she can possibly live without seeing it, to which Sabina responds, “I have seen Palermo. A friend of mine once sent me a postcard from there. It's taped up over the toilet...
...also worked with songwriter Aimee Mann, country singer Brad Paisley and the electronic duo Lemon Jelly. Who else would you like to work with? Anybody. Any well-known musician would be a prime victim of mine. I would jump on their backs and stick my needle-like teeth in their throat and suck their musical blood. [Laughs...
...Postcard: Bristol Bay," Bryan Walsh points out that if the Pebble Mine is built, it will produce billions in precious-metal wealth and create needed jobs [July 27]. But at what cost? Experts say it will foul the air and water and hurt salmon runs, among other atrocities. And the benefits will be exhausted within 50 years. I'm all for a sustainable resource like fish, which will bring jobs and provide profits for many more years to come. Also, there's great potential to earn cash through things like solar cells, especially in the land of the midnight...
...industry argues that the Pebble Mine can be developed without "serious risk to the environment." Have we forgotten the devastating 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound? Unless the industry can say "no risk," the mine should be shut down. Reynold Knopf, HOLLISTON, MASS...
...jawing can get especially fierce when the opponent is press secretary Robert Gibbs, with whom Obama shares some golfing characteristics. "His game is severely handicapped, as is mine," Gibbs says. (Estimates of the POTUS handicap, for which there is no official documentation, vary from...