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...word glory. If a high school textbook cited a sitting president telling his aides, "I don't give a shit what happens," parents would sue the school board. "The Civil War for Dummies" even has three chapters for the Civil War tourist that operate under the assumption that the reader is a licensed driver, enumerating the battlefields one may visit without even getting...
...Some readers felt the cover picture and the illustrations for our story on anxiety only added to the worries of the overstressed. "The creepy cover shot and the horrific images within the article probably scared those who suffer from anxiety away from picking up your magazine," declared a Worthington, Ohio, man. And a reader in New York State criticized the cover picture on different grounds. "This photograph stigmatized those who suffer from anxiety as lacking strength of character and willpower. The true face of someone with anxiety could be depicted by a photo of any office worker, including people...
...also had a devil of a time learning in class. "It was a real problem for me," says Cruise. "I was diagnosed as having dyslexia. I confused letters. I was a slow reader. I didn't know how to use a dictionary. I tried, but I didn't have a system where I could learn. I couldn't catch up." In high school, he lived in Glen Ridge, N.J., with his mother. Cruise found confidence on the stage (he skipped his graduation because he was appearing in a dinner-theater production of Godspell) and started his movie career...
...like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...
...first studied at Oxford, staying to become a fellow, then a medieval history lecturer and finally a university reader in late Roman and early Byzantine studies. He also worked at the University of London before moving to the United States and becoming the Professor of History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley...