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...Death, a stranger in any child's cosmos, seems grossly alien in Hilary's. She lives in a pale-yellow house a block from the ocean in Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J. The tiny town is a summer beach destination--Ginny met George on the boardwalk when she was just 17 and both were working menial hotel jobs--with a year-round population of slightly more than 2,000. Yet even in the off-season Avon retains a certain lazy, carefree air. Sweeping front porches serve as social hubs. Traffic grinds to a halt so that ducks can meander across...
...prisoner or let him go. On June 12, Newman submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to Judge Mukasey, and that day he appointed a co-counsel to help Newman handle the workload: Andrew Patel, 50, a genial veteran with a hearty laugh who is no stranger to controversial clients. In 1997 he defended El Sayyid Nosair, a convicted assassin suspected of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing from prison. Together Newman and Patel spent a week beefing up her original petition. The new version cited a litany of constitutional violations, from the right to a speedy...
Belmont native Zdenka M. Sturm ’06, was no stranger to Harvard Square when she arrived Saturday morning to move into her first-year dorm room...
...experiences (watch for a fight of Nietzschean proportions with his girlfriend in a Barbados cafe), De Botton encourages us to savor the small pleasures of traveling: the funny spelling on a Dutch sign, a cypress tree in Provence that's straight out of a Van Gogh painting, or a stranger's kitchen glimpsed from a speeding train...
...contestants cynical? As dating teaches us, it's a fine line between cynicism and experience. Are the shows contrived? Undoubtedly. But that's what dates are: arbitrary tasks (order and eat a meal, watch and comment on a movie) that give you an excuse to talk to an attractive stranger. And to young people who patronize Internet personals and "speed-dating" matchmaker services, getting hooked up by a casting director is not even the most bizarre option out there. "Where else can you find 25 guys who have had background and medical checks?" asks Bachelorette's Rehn. Today's dating...