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...hand, as quilting grandmas and golfing grandpas will attest. For some, however, hobbies go from a mere distraction to a full-blown obsession, invigorating enthusiasts from train lovers to map collectors. Indeed, some experts believe there's a significant health benefit to be gained by immersion in a passion. "What gets a person out of [depression] is when you're engaged in a stimulating endeavor," says Bernard Landis, 77, a psychologist-psychoanalyst. Six years ago, he cut back his practice and enrolled in art school, and this May he graduated with a B.F.A. in painting and drawing. "You meet people...
...DIED. Mark Fineman, 51, fearless foreign correspondent who in a 29-year career was drawn to hot spots around the world with a concentration on Asia; of a heart attack while on assignment; in Baghdad. Fineman, who worked for the Los Angeles Times for 17 years, combined a passion for news with the grace of a feature writer. As a colleague recalled in the (London) Independent: "He was an intelligent and generous colleague, willing to share contacts and sources, but only after he had scooped...
...SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI By Gil Courtemanche Love amid war is an ancient literary conceit, but Courtemanche gives it a twist. The journalist-turned-novelist, who reported on the Rwandan genocide during the '90s, sets his unlikely but touching tale against that bloody backdrop. "Passion feeds on abandon," he writes. So it is for his protagonists, who kindle an affair as the country, riven by AIDS and ethnic slaughter but neglected by the rest of the world, descends into chaos...
...concert the following day. We had coffee that afternoon and became inseparable friends. Edward Said did not fit into any single category. He was the very essence of human nature because he understood its contradictions. He was both a fighter and a compassionate defender. A man of logic and passion. An artist and a critic. A visionary of the future with an understanding of tradition. He fought for Palestinian rights while understanding Jewish suffering, and did not see this posture as a paradox. We founded the West-East Divan as a forum where young Israeli and Arab musicians understood that...
...Harvard, she said she divides her time between her schoolwork and her passion...