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...size, however, are the least of his challenges. As a 3-year-old in Sudbury, Mass., Savage was diagnosed as autistic. He had odd obsessions (license plates, for one), was terrified of loud noises and wouldn't play with other children. His mother, who manages his career, and father feel that since starting piano lessons at 6 and teaching himself jazz, he has made huge strides emotionally. Since 1998, he has played more than 50 concerts and released five CDs. Today his busy, multi-track mind teems with advanced knowledge of everything from geography and math to sports statistics. "Autism...
...maybe not so hopeless. The trio enters into a sweet-spirited menage a trois, and the Weltschmerz-laden song ascends the charts, but with this odd bullet attached: quite a few people have it on the record player when they commit suicide. The song's climb prefigures Nazism's rise--and the demise of the old, gemutlich Europe symbolized by the restaurant...
...members are strong on the right to life. But that does not mean they or the Bush Administration thinks the state should pay for a national health-care program. That is anathema to these "compassionate" conservatives. Schiavo's medical bills should be sent to the White House. And how odd that religious people believe in heaven but don't want to see the hopelessly ill go there when their lives are clearly finished. RON RUGGIERI Cranston...
...Let’s go, we’ll have a good time,” or “Let’s go, there won’t be anything else to do that weekend.” Instead, bound by an odd obligation to tradition, we told ourselves we ought to go. In the queue in front of the box office, students shifted from foot to foot, unbuttoned their coats, looked bored...
...trusted - gets so zonked at the Boujis club in South Kensington she has to be carried out, half-conscious, by her bodyguard and plopped into a waiting car. All in all, not bad for her first 48 hours in town. "A combination of jet lag, exhaustion and the odd cocktail," is how Spears' people explained the Boujis wooziness in the pages of the Evening Standard - although her reps now claim they were misquoted and that the whole thing never happened. In any case, Spears was well enough by Oct. 27 to guest-star on the V Graham Norton show...