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...Chicago and going, "Oh my God, they've cracked the code. This has to be the single greatest existence in the world." In the first couple years I worked at the A.V. Club, I'd tell people that I was a critic. My family members would say, "Your cousin Lloyd wanted to be a film critic. Now he's a hot dog vendor at Wrigley Field." But then after a few years, my life kept having these strange parallels. I grew up in the same neighborhood as Siskel. I decided to go bald just like him. We went...
...pain at all. And his lower back and hands, which ached before, were also now pain-free. So I was curious last year, when at age 73 he came in and told me he was ready for a hip replacement. "It's just so stiff" is all he would say. He certainly had the limp, the trouble with stairs and the slow rise from a chair that you see in folks with hip arthritis. His X-ray showed bone-on-bone erosion and plenty of spurring; his examination showed the profound loss of motion you would also expect. Everything said...
...say Dennis Ross is not naive. I believe he is if he thinks Iranians can be persuaded to switch focus to the economy - and question why their regime is not spinning money and enriching the country - while their centrifuges are "spinning day and night" enriching uranium. If the North Koreans, who are far poorer, can live with this set of priorities out of a sense of national pride, why can't the Iranians? Kangayam Rangaswamy, WAUNAKEE...
...warned in 1996 that Australia was "in danger of being swamped by Asians," has retreated from politics, Asia's presence and influence in Australia still provoke controversy. Some Asian, Middle Eastern and African Australians complain that they are somehow considered less truly Australian than those who came from, say, Italy, Greece or Croatia. An influx of foreign students into Australian universities - many of them Asian - has heightened tensions. In an ugly series of incidents in Victoria in recent months, Indian students have been attacked in so-called "curry bashings." (Indians are the second largest group of foreign students in Australia...
...H.M.A.S. Collins submarine had docked. Descending into the claustrophobic space, Rudd gave a pep talk to seamen who often spend three months at sea in the cramped capsule. As he traveled the world, he said, foreigners, whether American or Canadian or British, always had the most complimentary things to say about the Australian Defence Force. Egos were stroked, but Rudd seemed to be sending another message to the submarine crew: at the dawn of this new century, as a country and a continent unto itself, Australia has to define its security on its own terms...