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...desired accessory. "A lot of my older sisters would never wear the veil," says Sister Sarah Roy, 29, who is the only member of her Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Ill., to do so. (The others wear a simple dark dress adorned by a pin.) Though she admits "people just stare at you like you're a freak," she adds, "It's a trend with younger women wanting to wear the veil...
Clearly there's a hunger for insight, however painful, on the end-time fears particular to our time. The cold war stories could pin the disaster on a simple East-West showdown. The new apocalypses are more shadowy, less ideological. In Jericho, we do not know who attacked or why. In The Road, the cataclysm may have been war, or it may have been an asteroid strike. Who would do this? you might ask these works. Terrorists? A superpower? Americans? God? Their unspoken shrug: Any. All. None. Pick a number...
...mail. “This was very much a group effort, and I don’t think Luke had more input on the purposes and goals of the proposed program than anybody else on the committee.”It is perhaps too easy to pin specific aspects of the report on Menand. After all, he is, along with Simmons, one of the members of the committee whose academic and non-academic work is more directly involved in educational policy. However, Menand claims no superiority.“I just have a normal historian’s interest...
...Rich writes, “With Jay Leno wearing a flag pin, a growing, if still small audience was identifying The Daily Show as one of the few reliable spots on the dial for finding something other than the government line...
...meticulously check your packages to see if anyone’s broken a seal. You can eye the kid sitting next to you in the computer lab to make sure he’s not watching you type your PIN. But are those precautionary measures necessary to protect your identity, or are conspiracy theorists in for a disappointment? Say a package is oozing with strange goo, or is emitting ticking noises. Would it be unceremoniously torn open in a back room only to be revealed as a crushed pie or new watch? University Mail Services, which supervises the mail...