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...waxed. I can’t even imagine taking care of myself, but...I want to be a mommy, to hold a crying newborn in my arms and know exactly what she is telling me. I want to be selfless and dedicated and give all I have to shape that little being into a beautiful adult. I want to do for her all that my parents did for me—only better, if possible (and it probably isn’t possible—my parents are amazing...
...Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered by a clear-eyed sympathy. Her prose here is more incantatory and hypnotic than ever...taut and often spellbinding...
...Coffee Man drinks, but it got him his name. Rotund in the middle, with meager limbs and a permanent case of the jitters, he resembles a superhero only by dressing in a unitard with "TMCM" on the front. The top of his head explodes up and out into the shape of a giant coffee cup. Originally a tossed-off doodle, Shannon Wheeler's character first appeared in the mid-nineties and has now encompasses both comix collections and a magazine inspired by the character. "Too Much Coffee Man's Amusing Musings" (Dark Horse; $12.95; 144pp.) is the third collection...
...January, after talks with the Group and local shopkeepers, represented by Clavien, Lausanne's police department launched Operation Alpha, and relief for St. Laurent now stalks the streets in the shape of Patrick Martin. In black combat gear and bullet proof vests, touting an array of dissuasive weaponry, Martin and his six colleagues of the Alpha Squad are a no-nonsense message to the cocaine dealers, a comfort to the locals and, in the end, probably whistling in the wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets...
...Personally, I enjoy playing indoors, but tennis is meant to be an outdoor sport,” Chu said. “As long as you’re in shape it shouldn’t matter...