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...studded tiara and the crimson-colored sash resting on my bookshelf haven’t started collecting dust just yet. Instead, they seem to pop up in every conversation I have, in newspapers and on the Internet. Sometimes I feel like my title is tattooed to my forehead as random passersby take shy peeks while whispering, “There she is. Miss Harvard...
...safe. Slowly but surely, however, my unease about travel grew from an ominous flicker on the horizon when planning the trip to a tangible approaching reality. As the date of my imminent departure grew near, doubt gave way to panic attacks. The attacks would hit me at random times during the day, usually beginning with a heavy lurch of the stomach. Then came the short mental picture of the inside of a plane, oxygen masks down, plummeting to the ground while the plane gave its death rattle to the background of terrified screams. Infamous crash sites would...
Current Israeli policy seems uncertain and random; it should be meticulous and planned to hurt those who hurt Israel...
...have absolutely no idea why women so wholly embrace Oprah's sanctimonious declarations of common sense. So I grabbed a Midwestern phone book and selected a woman at random, much the same way Larry King seems to select wives. The first person I reached was Lisa Davis of Des Moines, Iowa. After I explained that I really wasn't selling anything, I had a nice conversation with Lisa, a 42-year-old grandmother of two and cashier at Casey's General Store. Like many Americans, Davis gets her news from TIME, only this time she got it more directly than...
Eiji Miyake is searching for a father he's never met, whose name he doesn't know. To track Dad down, he considers using lies, truths, computers and guns; in the end his most effective weapon is a pizza. In Number9Dream (Random House; 400 pages), David Mitchell returns to a setting from his widely acclaimed 1999 debut, Ghostwritten: a dystopian and dysfunctional Japan, one-part William Gibson, two-parts Murakami-Ryu and Haruki. Like a cyberage Holden Caulfield, 19-year-old, fresh-from-the-countryside Miyake plods his way through Tokyo's cityscape, rubbing elbows with Uber-hackers, war veterans...