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Joseph Kabila speaks slowly and deliberately, monitoring each word even as it's forming. When his stern but handsome face breaks into a smile, it lasts just a second or two. A chuckle, and then he checks himself. He doesn't smoke, he says. Or drink. Not even a beer with dinner? "Why should I drink a beer? I drink juice." As a teenager he read novels but now prefers philosophy. "I used to read a lot about revolution, but I believe it's time to read about development, democracy," he says. He's interested in computers and the Internet...
...DiFranco, 30, ever changed her name to an unpronounceable symbol it probably would look like a fist, to represent her subversion of music-industry conventions. Or maybe it would take the shape of a crooked smile. Or perhaps there's no single symbol that can stand for what DiFranco is all about: she's folk and she's punk; she can be a little country and even a tiny bit hip-hop. In fact, she has transformed herself into a flesh-and-blood icon, one that represents a blithe, unconquerable self-reliance: she has released 15 albums over...
...Alan Greenspan couldn't have been pandering to Wall Street, because Wall Street was already finding its smile. After shrugging off Cisco's woes on Tuesday (and feeling pretty good about having done so), the Dow and the NASDAQ were already surging Wednesday on Street-beating earnings reports from Old and New Economy stocks alike - Intel, General Motors, J. P. Morgan Chase, and AOL Time Warner (parent empire of this writer - go stock options!). The rally, you see, was already...
...sofa. Then he said, 'I'm Mel Brooks.'" The performance won them over, but not long afterward Ockrent became ill with leukemia (he died in December 1999). After a few months' hiatus, Stroman resumed working on her own with Brooks. "I needed someone to make me smile," she says. "Who better than Mel Brooks...
...book review is really, in the end, about what you do with your money, so I’ll give you my instructions on the matter and then you can go. So, as for Literature and the Gods, smile when you pass it on a bookshelf, but don’t buy it. If it’s awe and wonder you’re looking for, check out The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, where Calasso comes by it honestly. If it’s coherent literary theory you’re looking for, bleached of interest, I hereby...