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Something's wrong with Kevin Spacey's face. At first you think it's just a case of bad lighting. But soon you realize this is scar tissue--not enough to turn him into a grotesque, but plenty to explain why his Eugene Simonet, a junior high social-science teacher, is prissy, overintellectual and socially withdrawn...
...Dirt Girl (Nonesuch), a seemingly simple declaration of love--"Nobody loves you like I do"--has the twist of a curse or a threat. Or a declaration of defeat: "I love ya like a user needs a drug." Or a grudging tribute to the man who left a scar: "I will always think of you [because]/ You made me believe in tragedy." Yet if the singer's spirit can sound crushed, the listener's spirit soars because nothing has the rising poignancy of a voice in exquisite agony...
Sport at its highest level is a pure rush to the edge of human capability. How often do we get to watch mankind at its absolute best? We hear a composer's symphony or see the scar from a brilliant surgeon's operation, but we seldom see these men and women at the moment of supreme achievement. Sport provides one of the rare theaters where these moments can be glimpsed, and the Olympics are its gaudiest stage, where more records are set and broken than at any other athletic event in the world. By watching athletes like Marion Jones, Michael...
...water, 10 in the gym. "After I retire," she vows, "I'll never go into another gym again." The grind of a sport that has no off-season has left Brunet, 31, with nagging shoulder and hip pain in her sturdy 152-lb., 5-ft. 8-in. frame, and scar tissue from muscle rubbing on bone in her behind. "My bum is so sore," she says, voicing the kayaker's lament...
...first, it was wonderful. We met Rae's foster mother, who swooped in and rushed for Rae as if she were her long-lost daughter, which she almost was. She bear-hugged her. She stroked her hair. She touched every little nick and scar on her tan arms and legs. "What's this from?" she asked in Korean. She had fostered 31 babies, but it was as if she'd known only Rae. Rae was half grossed out, half purring. Somebody had just rushed in with the missing four months of her life. The foster mother wept. We wept...