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...There are no strangers here," residents will tell you, just friendly souls who missed you the first time around. Days are filled with classes and lectures exploring the far corners of the otherworldly: Spoon Bending, Mask Making (in the past seven elections, the candidate with the best-selling Halloween mask has won), Past-Life Regression, Alien Abduction Case Histories. I missed the Astrology Roundtable, which explored how the transit of Pluto into Capricorn--occurring once every 248 years--affects me, the nation and the world...
...first type is reflected in Ed Hecimovich, 41, who had just sat down for a greasy- spoon lunch with his wife and three young children when the Secret Service swarmed Schoop's Diner in Portage, Ind., and Obama swept in for a cheeseburger. Hecimovich, a pipe fitter who twice voted for President Bush, asked the candidate about the economy, his top concern. Obama's answers impressed the independent, but he's still undecided. "I like that Obama stands for change," Hecimovich says. "But he doesn't have the experience...
...report of her interrogation by Philippine police, seen by TIME, Istie describes her husband as a loving father who spoon-fed their young children and, even when on the run, insisted the whole family gather for meals. Istie claims that after arriving in the Philippines, Dulmatin and Patek traveled by small ferries and boats to the south, eventually settling in remote houses in Maguindanao in late...
...most people will see his movie at home, their fingers on the fast-forward and stop buttons, so he makes every element instantly understandable. That's why most movies seem as if they were made for the passengers of the Axiom. But WALL?E plays without safety nets or spoon-feeding; it reinvents the delicate, potent behavioral language of silent-film comedy, of the Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin films...
...Most of my colleagues at Oxford did law school, or consulting, and here I was in Reno, Nevada, in large part having to hide my Harvard and Oxford background so people wouldn’t think I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth,” she said...