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...most recent Nor'Easter banging at our windows, begging to come in, we contemplate that question a lot of people have been posing to us lately: Are we in fact crazy? Why would anyone in her right mind want to run 26 miles? 26.2, to be exact, and we smile ruefully. As two New Englanders and long-time runners, the exciting and powerful tradition of the Boston Marathon has always been nearly palpable in the weeks and days leading up to the race each year. The names Bill Rodgers and Joan Benoit immediately conjure up proud historic images of trial...
...smile his work to see?" -William Blake, "Tyger...
...until your fingers are raw, but you still can't convey the emotional subtlety of tete-a-tete conversation. That's why emoticons were invented, those clever keyboard images designed to punctuate online palaver with a fillip of feeling. Some have become well known: ;-) is a wink and a smile (in other words, aren't I ironic?). But the art form has spread beyond its first primitive symbols to become an increasingly complex form of Net expression. Herewith a quick sampling of the latest in postliterate sign language...
...During an interview, have fun, be funny, smile a lot--anything that will cause you to stick in the mind of the interviewer," Himes suggested...
...their final Oval Office meeting, Reich describes Clinton's attempt to reach out to his old liberal friend: "'We tried, didn't we? We did some good things.' 'Oh yeah,' I say quickly. 'And you'll have four more years to do even more.' I force a smile." Clinton gives him a bear hug. Reich's book is a more complicated embrace...