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...obsession with useful leisure activities, and they are well aware that today's overachieving superparents can't bear the thought of their obviously exceptional offspring wasting breath on any activity that won't help them win early acceptance to Princeton. ("Now, Sweetpea, you know Madison can't sleep over on Fridays because then you're both too grumpy for your Saturday-morning bilingual yoga class...
...prolific writer, in perhaps the most authoritative of Italian portraits, described a country resigned to a downward spiral in his classic book, The Italians. Barzini paints his people as peddlers of "ruses to defeat boredom and discipline, to forget disgrace and misfortune, to lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based, he pauses in his tour to point out the different shades of the cathedral's stonework: "It has taken seven centuries to produce...
...recent convert's wife, who wasn't Muslim, that her husband wouldn't suddenly become a terrorist. "A lot of their families freak out at first," Khan says. He says another convert had to reassure his brother, who asked, "You're not going to kill me in my sleep, are you?" And yet there's little evidence that negative perceptions of Islam--fewer than 20% of Americans say they have a positive image of the religion, according to one poll--have had any effect on the rate of conversion. Instead, since 9/11, some mosques have seen a jump...
...would want to know where a bit of organic matter came from before you put it into your mouth and swallow. Most of us don?t, of course, which isn?t a new problem: in the Dark Ages, as M.F.K. Fisher wrote, food was ?only a necessity? - ?like sleep and sweating.? So it is for most...
...says Michael Schulman, an accountant with Excelsior Senior Advisers in New York. With fewer years to live, you have higher monthly payments. An income annuity bought at age 75 or 80 might generate more monthly cash than you could get anywhere else. Your heirs might squirm. But you will sleep better knowing you have plenty of income and it will never...