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...look like guitar toting, hippie hitchhikers. Fortunately, Simon has puppy-dog eyes and baby teeth set on a big head that I can hide behind. He sticks out his thumb and smiles innocently. At 22, he looks barely 16. A couple of cars pass. The drivers and passengers stare as if we were roadside freaks. And I guess, as a couple of hitchhikers these days, we are. Driving the third car, a lone 30-year-old laughs and apologetically shrugs, mouthing, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” Can?...
...quick visit to Spain was to celebrate the Christian family, helping to close the Catholic World Meeting of Families in Valencia this weekend. Intead, the Pope's much-anticipated handshake and photo op Saturday evening with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero looked more like a heavyweight boxing stare-down of ideas over the direction of Western civilization and the meaning of morality in the modern world...
...always had a huge amount of support from people who were fans of freethinking. You would think over the years that people would come up to me and stick a finger in my chest. But people who don't like you almost never come up to you. They might stare or snicker to their wives. Maybe they think I'm a tough guy. I am five-eight...
...Blue Room—the Center’s main seminar room—where the photographs of her six predecessors now hang. “It would be fine with me if they would wait until after I was done, so I didn’t have to stare at it all the time,” she said. Having lived in the Philippines, New Zealand, and London, Simmons is a seasoned international scholar. Her favorite place in the world, however, is closer to home. “Cambridge, Massachusetts,” she answered...
...story) as if he were a guide who's led this tour for years and is doing it by rote. For them it might be a passion; for him, it's just a job. Hanks, too, seems to sleepwalk through the part; he gives it the fretful stare that spoke tragic volumes in Philadelphia and Saving Private Ryan but just registers as numb here. The villains fare a bit better. Bettany gets some poignance out of his role as self-flagellator and avenging devil, and Alfred Molina, as an Opus Dei poobah, plays liturgical corruption as if he were...