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...other members of the literary singer-songwriter caste. What separates her from those male counterparts, however, is her blend of folksy stories with the truly avant-garde, as much a call from outer space as a call from the wilderness. The tales of “Ys” ring like the stories of a parallel world, memories of a lost world, or the ghost stories of an imaginary kingdom. No song on “Ys” will appear on a mix CD and rightfully so: these songs belong together, like the Chronicles of Narnia, to be enjoyed...
...police stereotypes ring true...
...suggest "40 days and 40 nights" -that's the basic six weeks, less two days for her youth-and it has a kind of prophetic ring...
Katharine Johnson isn't sure yet which wedding dress she will choose--a white one or a black one. At 21, she is in her third year of discernment. For now the senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign dresses as her classmates do, though on her ring finger she wears a miniature rosary and a favorite T shirt reads, EVERYONE LOVES A CATHOLIC GIRL. She still dates but limits physical contact to kissing. "As I date men and I date convents, I am waiting for God to say, 'This is where your heart belongs,'" she says...
Having worked at the White House and run the CIA, Gates will manage the budgets, bureaucrats, jargon and generals on the Pentagon's E-Ring easily enough. But he will be judged by only one rule: whether he can organize what a Baker aide calls "the orderly transition and exit from Iraq." Someone who has worked with him describes Gates as "serious, subtle, reflective, never curt or abrupt." Departing CIA directors are flooded with offers of corporate jobs and strategic intelligence posts. Instead, when Gates left government in early 1993, he fled to Washington State, where he spent the next...