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...Lama warmed my heart and calmed my spirit. I pray his exile will soon end. Mary M. Revis Dayton, Ohio, U.S. One hundred of anything is way too much - 100 caviar canapés, 100 chocolate sundaes, even 100 dazzling human beings. Don't you realize that TV has shrunk our attention span to 10 nanoseconds? Couldn't you space out those remarkable folks - say, five per issue? Jason McCloskey Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. Once again, your list of influentials is peppered with people whose impact - if any - does not go beyond the borders of the U.S. I agree that Americans...
...hundred of anything is way too much--100 caviar canapés, 100 chocolate sundaes, even 100 dazzling human beings. Don't you realize that TV has shrunk our attention span to 10 nanoseconds? Couldn't you space out those remarkable folks--say, five per issue...
...lesser mortal would have shrunk from the enormity of trying to cope with all of that at the same time, but not Veronica Mars. She rebounded from her travails with a toughened yet witty edge, all the while maintaining compassion and zealousness for the truth. She sometimes takes on cases pro bono and does what it takes to accomplish her goals. She is charmingly effervescent and incisively brilliant...
...Sadly, the Catalan Atlas, like many of the other maps shrunk down to fit the pages of this book, is so intricate and large that much of its detail is incomprehensible, even with the help of a magnifying glass and a Latin dictionary. Another frustration is that many of the maps' most eye-catching details go unexplained because Nebenzahl's commentary focuses primarily on the historical context. But perhaps this failing is fitting. Presented like this, with their mysteries intact, the maps become, once again, invitations to further explorations. They beckon us into the shadowy waters of the past...
...year, the list shrunk to less than a tenth of the lucky 400. Clinton and Gore struck out, but dozens of Harvard outsiders were still in consideration. Condoleezza Rice, the former Stanford provost who was then helping George W. Bush to secure his presidency; Richard D. Klausner, then the director of the National Cancer Institute; and Nobel laureate Harold E. Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan all made...