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Alzheimer's isn't all quirky, Oliver Sacks moments--far from it--and Miller doesn't sentimentalize. She leads us lucidly, almost lyrically, through the neurological origins of the disease, and she doesn't spare us its ugly side, as when her father slams her into a wall in a demented rage. Her performance is an astonishing one, honest and free of wallowing, drenched in remembered pain but at a calm remove from it. When her father's end finally comes, Miller is brave enough to face her relief. "Guilty as I felt, terrified as I was, shamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laughter and Forgetting | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...Review: Spare folk arrangement fits the simple, evocative lyrics [4 peace signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowin' In The Wind | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...diners leaning over the railing in front of Dolphin Seafood wave two fingers at the train of marchers, a man on the Mass. Ave. sidewalk tries to sell Spare Change newspapers to the passersby. No one stops to puchase...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Marchers Chant, Dance And Hobble Their Way Across The Bridge To Protest in Boston | 3/21/2003 | See Source »

...undermine Saddam's ability to wage war." He warned Americans to expect a protracted campaign that he said was an essential part of keeping U.S. cities safe from terror attacks, and warned them also to expect Iraqi civilian casualties. U.S. forces would, he said, "make every effort to spare innocent civilians," but that Saddam had deliberately deployed many of his defenses in civilian areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam Under Siege | 3/20/2003 | See Source »

...Paying The Piper As the International Energy Agency warned that OPEC's spare daily capacity may fall a million barrels short of demand during an Iraq war, China moved to cut its dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Two state-owned firms agreed to buy British BG Group's $1.2 billion stake in the Caspian, raising the chance of a pipeline to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Little, Too Late? | 3/16/2003 | See Source »

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