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...Walker's childhood neighbors said the things neighbors always say in these situations. "They were an average American family," and John "was a sweet, quiet boy." It happens to be true. John Walker Lindh was a middle child named after John Lennon and Chief Justice John Marshall. He spent his first 10 years in Silver Spring, Md., in the happy, unremarkable manner that most parents wish for their children. "We were loud, normal kids," says Andrew Cleverdon, a boyhood friend of Walker's. "We played football and basketball, rode our bikes." John's father, attorney Frank Lindh, took...
...Mary J. Blige ("Everything"). There was the elegantly creepy work of Floria Sigismondi who directed videos for shock-rocker Marilyn Manson (one featured him shaving his own armpit) and trip-hopper Tricky. And there was also prankster auteur Spike Jonze, the man behind Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet" (a video that explodes into a technicolor musical), the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" (a take-off on '70s TV cop shows), and Weezer's "Buddy Holly" (a good-natured "Happy Days" sendup). Jonze also showed that videos could indeed lead to the big screen: After helming some MTV clips, he went...
...when people believed that it was possible to change the world by loving thy neighbor. In losing Harrison, we lose a part of our parents. The world is without one more person who didn’t understand the good of war or the seeming impossibility of peace. The quiet Beatle, both with and without his bandmates, gave hope to a generation of listeners. Perhaps someday, somewhere, we’re going to meet again...
Being Dead, British author Jim Crace’s most recent novel and winner of the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award, was a quiet and daring story about love that began with the couple’s murder. The paradoxical and grammatically awkward title was highly appropriate for its unassuming but innovative take on death. That novel’s precise, almost sensuous sensibility also comes across in Crace’s newest work, The Devil’s Larder, a collection of 64 short pieces about food that also turn out to be about death, sex, starvation...
Once a starter at shooting guard as a freshman, Merchant has since come to fill the invaluable role of Harvard’s sixth man coming off the bench. It’s a quiet role, but one that Merchant fits perfectly, according to Prasse-Freeman—who, along with forward Sam Winter, lives with Merchant in Quincy House. Merchant, he says, is as selfless as anyone he’s ever...