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...meantime, I'll try to teach her by my own abstinent example and take solace in not having lied about my own youth--which surely she'll have heard about by then (possibly from her mother or her grandma). If I'd been a less spectacular drinker, I might be able to rewrite my past, but I'm afraid that, like the President, I already blew that gambit. All that's left is to be forthright, more or less, and steel myself against charges of hypocrisy by remembering that my warnings come from love, not a desire to look better...
...Khumbu Icefall, Erik wondered for the first time if his attempt to become the first sightless person to summit Mount Everest was a colossal mistake, an act of Daedalian hubris for which he would be punished. There are so many ways to die on that mountain, spanning the spectacular (fall through an ice shelf into a crevasse, get waylaid by an avalanche, develop cerebral edema from lack of oxygen and have your brain literally swell out of your skull) and the banal (become disoriented because of oxygen deprivation and decide you'll take a little nap, right here...
Since Elaine Sammons and her late husband Charles bought the now 88-year-old Grove in 1955, they've spent almost $200 million restoring its elegance as they have brought it up to date. Perhaps the most spectacular project so far is a just-opened $40 million, 40,000-sq.-ft. spa. Its theme is consistent with the style that distinguishes the entire property and moved Architectural Digest to judge Grove Park "one of the most important and most well-preserved vestiges of the Arts and Crafts movement." Built from huge boulders so that only unfinished rock face is exposed...
...didn?t call the police, although in retrospect I wish I had. That spectacular imbecile may have gone on to kill or maim - and while I am not sure the North Carolina highway patrol would have been particularly sympathetic to my self-righteous outrage, I like to think a carefully-considered complaint might have made a difference...
...Still, the election is a watershed. If Blair loses, it will be a spectacular upset. If he wins, he will be heading toward a historic first: two full terms of a Labour government and a run at a third. Blair doesn't want to look power-mad by talking about the next election, but it's already in his sights - and he knows that winning it will depend on visibly fixing what ails Britain. One Labour insider says that "politics in a second term will become quite mundane, focusing on the nitty-gritty of how hospitals, doctors' surgeries, classrooms work...