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...following week and half with a bright, red blistering nose. It was rather embarrassing when I arrived in Denver for counselor training, looking like Rudolph. When we talked about reminding the kids to wear sunscreen, I sheepishly hung my head in shame. Every time I looked in the mirror I was reminded of the cold hard fact that Mom is always right and I still had much to learn...
There was a mirror on the shelf, and a razor and shaving cream. I thought that was odd. Wouldn't he do that at home? But I guess I figured that a man who had a perfectly good split-level and then built an underground room only half a mile away had to be kind of loo-loo. My father had a nice way of describing people like him: "The man's a character, that...
Although Cruise and Spielberg, friends for two decades, have been developing the script since 1999, the movie turns out to be topical, a celluloid mirror of current events. Jointly financed by DreamWorks and Fox, it opens amid controversy over Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to put a terrorism suspect in military detention. Many have noted the similarity between the movie's idea of Precrime and the legal ramifications of arresting but not charging suspected terrorists...
...informs his work with greater insight, but no less passion. The book frequently digresses from Jean-Christofe's pathology into narratives of the Beauchard family history. World War I and French Indochina scar the men, while the women are desperate for education to get off the farm. Their struggles mirror the Beauchard's battle with disease. When the author's great-grandmother practices "white magic" and tells his mother of the fairies living in the fields, you can see where the door opened for his mother's eventual absorption in ouija and spiritualism. At once the story of a family...
Yasser Arafat looked as if he couldn't believe his bulging eyes. Inspecting the damage to his living quarters caused by the latest Israeli assault on his Ramallah headquarters last week, the Palestinian leader checked out the new window in his bathroom, courtesy of Israeli firepower; a broken mirror hanging above a photograph of him with his daughter, now 6 years old; the scattering of debris covering his exercise bike and bed. "I was supposed to sleep here last night, but I had some work downstairs. Everybody knows this is my bedroom," he told reporters, suggesting that the Israeli troops...