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...thus rehydrates his dried-out emotional palette. Never mind that the main reason people respond to Richard seems to be that he has unlimited amounts of time and money. I'm sure the world appears to be populated with entertaining, emotionally revivifying people when you can spontaneously send a stranger you met in the produce section away for a spa weekend that would make Caligula's knees weak. And I don't have an estranged son, but if I did and could impulse buy him a VW Beetle (black, convertible, with bud vase) the way Richard does...
...masterpiece Atonement. His central character, Henry Perowne, is a happy man, a successful London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a very comfortable town house. He also shares the generalized anxieties of people everywhere after 9/11. Then one Saturday he crosses paths with an excitable stranger, a man who will turn up soon again in Perowne's life and give a specific face to all his fears...
...that he had converted to Christianity and abandoned the religion of Islam but also described him as "jobless, lazy and cruel." His 14-year-old daughter Maria said that when her father returned to Afghanistan three years ago after spending many years in Germany and Pakistan he was a stranger to her. "He said he was my father but he hasn't behaved like a father since he came back to Afghanistan. He threatens us and we are all afraid of him and he doesn't believe in the religion of Islam," her statement said...
Sonia Gandhi's surprise decision to resign as a member of parliament leaves the world's biggest representative democracy in the hands of two leaders, Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who technically don't represent anyone. If that sounds like a strange system of government, this is even stranger. Rather than bad for Indian politics, many in India fed up with corruption and venality as usual would argue that Gandhi and Singh are the best thing to happen to it in a long time...
Huang, an animated student who seems like he could strike up a conversation with any stranger, is ubiquitous in the Asian communities on campus. He sings in the Asian a capella group C-Sharp, directs the tutoring program Chinatown Afterschool, and helps out at events held by the Chinese Students Association (CSA), Taiwanese Cultural Society (TCS), and Asian American Association...