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...Glen, New York, U.S. Pluto Farewell Being a big fan of lighthearted commentary, I took great pleasure in reading Jeffrey Kluger's Essay "Get Pluto out of Here!" [Aug. 28]. It has been quite a while since something as serious as the size of our solar system brought a smile to my face. His Essay was a wonderfully simple explanation of the problem surrounding Pluto's definition as the ninth planet, as well as a warning of the dangers of overthinking that and other, less important issues. Albert Aukema Pretoria, South Africa The Other Two-Wheeler I read with interest...
...heart for an ex-girlfriend. The one tattoo he's reluctant to exhibit, on the inside of his right forearm, is of a skewer running through a bunch of severed fingers and eyeballs. "That's the one I really don't like," Marisol says sternly but with a smile...
...That's thanks to Ferrell, who seems to be stretching his comedic skills but is in fact contracting them. No actual acting required here (unlike, say, Jim Carrey's turn in the Kaufman film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), just the occasional slim smile under existential pressure and the radiating of a dim niceness. Ferrell also intermittently channels the numerological obsessions of Hoffman's character from Rain Man. Remind me: did that film win the big... Oscar? The Academy campaign starts Nov. 10, at a theater near...
...Chafee Gives the G.O.P. Many Reasons to Smile The Rhode Island senator's key victory may signal that moderates aren't all dead and that incumbents aren't necessarily doomed
...recent Sunday at Lakewood gives some idea of the emphasis on worldly gain that disturbs Warren. Several hundred stage lights flash on, and Osteen, his gigawatt smile matching them, strides onto the stage of what used to be the Compaq Center sports arena but is now his church. "Let's just celebrate the goodness of the Lord!" Osteen yells. His wife Victoria says, "Our Daddy God is the strongest! He's the mightiest...