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Giuliani recently proposed that the memorial selection process be suspended, to allow more time for the meaning of 9/11 to clarify. Though he has no real power in the matter, he's right. The best design might indeed turn out to be built around two profound holes, grave sites filled with calm waters. But should we try to arrive at that design in the midst of a war that we are still fighting? The meanings of that day--who can even name them all? Before we choose how to embody those meanings, what we need is more time to learn...
...from Silver Spring, Md., who is married and has a teenage daughter, says that after the surgery she felt no sexual desire whatsoever. "I didn't think about it," she says. "I didn't get that urge from a glance or a look or a touch." It was a profound loss. "Without that connection, without the sexual aspects, you feel in some instances like you're really less than a woman," she says...
...ground they danced on. The stage allowed him to dominate. He radiated silky malevolence in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a tonic cynicism in Simon Gray's Butley, a charming naivete in Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Bates' brilliance was too often taken for granted. His absence leaves a profound hole in our theater and film life...
...chilly mists of divided Berlin, it lifted the curtain on a secret war fought in silence not by chiseled movie heroes in tuxedos but by paunchy, bitter men in ill-fitting trench coats, real human beings who loved and suffered and doubted and died in an atmosphere of profound moral ambiguity. They were James Bond come unbound...
Even with such profound skill, the Crimson’s power play has barely eked out a 14.3 percent conversion rate this season...