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...surfaces of Martha Sherrill's haunting and evocative first novel, you experience something of a waking dream: the It girl of the moment is telling a journalist, "At my deepest point, my still point, I am water," when suddenly, almost inexplicably, you get pulled into something deeper. Stars somehow possess...
...takes a certain kind of person to use a cell phone in public—that is, a loud, ballsy and shameless kind of person. I, sadly, possess none of these characteristics. I once listened to a girl on a cell phone at CVS describe, in great detail, her epic quest to purchase the right deodorant. Is this the kind of intimate moment that cell phones allow us to share? I can’t help but feel that people are talking more, but saying less. When I see Cingular’s commercial for their new 5,300-minute...
Other morning-after missions would include securing Iraq's borders, preventing Iraqis from settling scores among themselves, keeping the country's three main communities--Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites--from fighting and finding any weapons of mass destruction Iraq may possess. The Pentagon is already worried about the dynamics of that search. "We have to find and show the world Saddam's weapons," says a senior Defense official--in a way, he adds, that quells suspicions that the U.S. planted the evidence. That's one reason the Pentagon uncharacteristically decided to let 500 reporters from all over the world accompany...
This is not to say that God’s role should take away from athletic accomplishments. Successful athletes train exceptionally hard and possess incredible, natural (God-given?) ability. That said, they clearly cannot control every aspect of their play (except for maybe LeBron James—He Got Game...
...nothing at all mystifying about the appeal of Fred Rogers for adults. But for those of us who never experienced the show as a child, there is something bewildering about the hold of a man who, like Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamelin, seemed to possess some kind of “secret charm” that drew children into his orbit...