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Coming as a reader means encountering the peculiarity of text: isolated, stripped of inflection and emphasis; vulnerable to selective reading, selective sight, decontextualization. Stranger than seeing yourself grinning exquisitely in vacation photographs is hearing your own words thrown back against you: "I was reading the other day," a friend begins, "though I forget where...
...kind of person who can do no wrong in his own mind," says Fachry Ali, an old friend of the President and head of a Jakarta think tank, the Institute for Business Ethics. "He's very stubborn." The President, who has suffered three strokes and is blind, is getting stranger by the day, baffling even the likes of Fachry. "Everybody is confused," he says, "his aides, his ministers, everybody...
...noticed that there was movement in my roommate's room," Lee said. "I realized that it was a complete stranger taking [his jewelry] chains and headphones...
...another coup when it launches an online excerpt of Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, his first full-length novel in three years. Time.com will publish a more than 6,000-word excerpt starting Monday, March 5, with the next installments appearing March 12 and March 19. King himself is no stranger to the Web or to TIME. When he published his novella Riding the Bullet last year, we put him on the cover with the legend Do-It-Yourself.com. It was due in part to that cover that King thought of TIME when he was publishing his new book, a disturbing story...
...them are intimate or low-cost. I know that if you get smart people and name talent attached, you can make something a little more ambitious. But there's a big part of me that wants to have ultimate, intimate control over what I'm doing. Those are stranger movies. They're going to have to cost a lot less because they're going to make a lot less...