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...activity—and abstinence from several others—made her an Olympic competitor. That was clearly not the case for me. Would I trade swimming trophies, AYSO jerseys, track plaques, and volleyball certificates for an Olympic Gold Medal? In a heartbeat. But would I forfeit years of random extracurricular exploration? Not so fast. As for my children?...
Curtis Sittenfeld's best-selling debut novel, Prep, dropped a Midwestern girl into an East Coast boarding school, where readers watched her struggle toward adulthood. In her third novel, American Wife (Random House, 576 pages), Sittenfeld raises the stakes: this time, the Midwestern girl ends up in the White House. Readers will recognize Laura and George Bush as the inspiration for Sittenfeld's first couple, Alice and Charlie Blackwell, but it's the author's rich imagination that brings the Blackwells to life. TIME's senior arts editor Radhika Jones spoke to Sittenfeld a few days before the book...
...more curtailed than usual. A highly visible force of 110,000 soldiers and police officers patrol the capital, aided by 290,000 citizens wearing armbands and shirts identifying them as "security volunteers." Some neighborhoods seem to have more guards than residents. Bus and subway riders are subject to random luggage probes, and a series of checkpoints on roads leading into Beijing have produced miles-long traffic jams. An anticipated Olympics-related tourism boom looks to be more of a damp squib, probably due in part to unusually strict enforcement of visa regulations. Some 500,000 tourists will visit Beijing this...
...created by the San Francisco-based architectural firm Gensler. It was a collaboration launched by chance when Art Gensler, the firm's chairman, missed his flight home and ended up on a JetBlue flight to California with the airline's founder, David Neeleman. (Neeleman is known for hopping random JetBlue flights and handing out peanuts to passengers). "Nothing is more nerve-wracking," says Gensler's Bill Hooper, chief architect of the Terminal 5 project, "than having your boss hand you [David Neeleman's] card and saying, 'Make something happen...
...Bush and Hoover as its patron saints, its Janus heads. They expressed the show's continuing, contradictory catchphrases: "I Want to Believe" and "Trust No One." Each Sunday night at nine, the series would juggle the concepts of blind faith (the need to find meaning and pattern in the random events of the universe) and paranoia (which, as any neurotic would tell you, is just common sense accompanied by theremin music). Hip and weird, and reveling in the emotional voyeurism at the heart of any detective show, The X Files spanned the Bill Clinton Era - or, roughly, the time between...