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...infection rate. On Friday morning, a train that would normally be shuttling office workers is instead abuzz with families. Mega-strollers clog the aisles. A mom wipes the nose of her round little boy, while a young girl in pigtails and a flu mask collapses on her father's shoulder, laughing. This is, after all, a day off, and this particular train is headed to Hong Kong Disneyland. It's not a bad way to spend a sick...
Just past Dawes Island, at the entrance to Cambridge Common, is a marble gateway topped with an ironwork trellis. At the center of the trellis, a lone Native American stares out enigmatically from a shield, a star over his right shoulder. Above his head a disembodied hand clutches a sword. Below, engraved on a banner, is the inscription, “ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,” a Latin phrase meaning, “by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty...
...Seattle Sonics are probably going to move to Oklahoma City. You appear to be sending the message that communities need to shoulder enormous financial burdens to build arenas (which some think are unnecessary), while you let team owners make enormous profits. We are losing confidence in you and the league. How do you respond? -Tim DeJong, ClevelandI welcome the criticism. I would say that a good number of our franchises are not profitable. So there are many owners who would raise their eyebrows at the charge that they are making enormous profits. I think that the ideal partnership...
...best friends are those who can finish your sentences and predict when you’ll need a shoulder to cry on. But there is a fine line between being a good friend and becoming a burden who doesn’t understand personal boundaries. In “The Soul Thief,” an eerily provocative and creative work of fiction, Charles Baxter explores the nature of relationships and identity while commenting on the modern American experience. Ambiguity and contingency mediate the relationships in “The Soul Thief,” making it difficult to separate...
...talks of her pride at his success and how he will make a fine President. "He is very loving and very hardworking and never had to be told what to do," she says, pointing out a photograph of a young, gangly Obama with a sack of vegetables over his shoulder during his first visit to Kenya. "Even though he is very learned, he's a very good listener and respects the opinions of others." A chicken wanders in through the open door and Granny Sarah hauls herself out of her chair to shoo it away...