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...water, chlorine, algicide. Still, the pool seldom has a proper pH: sometimes too much chlorine, sometimes none at all. There are days when I think of my pool as a malign presence that may or may not be full of chemicals, like having Barry Bonds in the backyard...
...from the fifth, he is fluent in French, and last year he was made a chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His novel tries "to look at Paris in a different way," he says, "through the eyes of immigrants who live there but seldom come in contact with white French natives...
...President has to be a preacher of sorts, instructing, consoling, summoning citizens to sacrifice for some common good. But candidates are competitors, which means they seldom manage to talk about faith in a way that doesn't disturb people, doesn't divide them, doesn't nail campaign posters on the gates of heaven. Republicans have been charged with exploiting religious voters, Democrats with ignoring them: Hillary Clinton's voice gets tight as she recalls the mocking response she received when she first spoke in spiritual terms about the longing that people felt to invest in causes larger than self-interest...
...scholarly Tunisian immigrants, likens himself to a surgeon, cutting away corruption before it spreads into the body politic. He works relentlessly, immersing himself in the details of a case. "Mazuz has the lowest cell-phone bills in the Justice Ministry," jokes one aide. "He hardly makes any calls - and seldom takes them, no matter who it is." But critics say this attention to the grains of fact may have blinded him to the broader implications of the Katsav case, and the risk of a public backlash. His supporters disagree. Says Shlomo Cohen, head of the Israeli Bar Association, "Mazuz...
...obscure cinema ("I'm a big movie buff, five or six a week"), he discovered the 10th arrondissement's rich stew of African and Asian ethnicity. His novel tries "to look at Paris in a different way," he says, "through the eyes of immigrants who live there but seldom come in contact with white French natives...