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...global economy (e.g. big airlines) have gone into black holes, but there are also financial winners, among them, surprisingly, a few airlines - the low-cost carriers. While some consumers curb their spending, others have a more profligate sense of carpe diem. At a personal level, many people may be nicer to their kids, more suspicious of neighbors, willing to relinquish basic liberties in the name of security. Some have gained faith in a divine power above this earthly mess . . . or lost it completely...
...hangout for upperclassmen and grad students on any weekend night, BAR features a Bru Room for beer, brick-oven pizza, a Front Room for socializing over drinks, a Back Room for dancing, a Lounge for relaxing, a Grain Loft for dining and private parties and a Back Porch for nicer days. 21+. $8 cover. $6-$12 for food. Sun-Th 4pm-1am, F-Sat 4pm2am. 254 Crown...
...nicer ironies of postcolonial English writing that the most evident heir to that great and fearsome archconservative Evelyn Waugh, who famously despised every civilization that had not been subjugated by Rome, should be from the Caribbean. Naipaul is also one of the very few writers to have a whole, book-length cruise missile of a memoir fired at him by a fellow writer. In 1998 Paul Theroux, in a striking fit of Oedipal peevishness, published Sir Vidia's Shadow, painting his former friend and mentor as a self-obsessed, avaricious, pathologically snobbish brute. Perhaps...
...efface the self you've worked hard to assemble over the years and you feel a new you emerge, a nicer you, calmer, cooler, easier-going. The you you really are and not the guy you constructed at the U and from Gary Cooper movies and tailored to the needs of Hubbard, Buttrick, Bickford & Barnes and re-tuned in therapy with Dr. Koren. Now you become the you you were afraid the world would find out about. Goombah, homeboy, cowpoke or hobo. Or, in my case, a limericist. But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet...
...Ugandan by birth. In the 1990s, after her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and despite her own cancer, she began a relentless campaign to raise awareness and money for Alzheimer's research. Devoted to her father, she lived, she said, for his good days. "There's nothing nicer than the sound of his laughter...