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Emma Corrigan, the heroine of this sugary tale, inadvertently spills all her life’s secrets to the handsome stranger sitting next to her on the airplane when she mistakenly believes the plane will crash. Of course, the plane lands safely and the stranger disappears with her secrets—only it turns out he’s no stranger, but the elusive CEO of the company where Emma works. You know they’re meant to be together, but the road, as always, is long, bumpy, hilarious, and full of improbable obstacles...
SPEAKING OF STEREOTYPES, this provocative series attacks them using tricks of unreality entertainment: makeup and prosthetics. A black and a white family each get made over to live life as members of the other's race. As illuminating as their undercover experiences (a white stranger casually shares racist opinions with the "white" father) are their conflicting interpretations of racial nuances (was a salesman nice to the "black" father out of friendliness--or fear that he was going to steal something?). This is an extreme--and edifying--makeover indeed...
...Fitial recalled that the President was "very gracious" at the session. "He knew quite a few of the people in the room; I know that because he called them by their first name. The responses showed that the President was no stranger to these people, he said. "And the response was very warm on both sides...
...DIED. JOHANNES RAU, 75, former German President and premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's industrial heartland; in Berlin. Rau, a Social Democrat, failed in a bid to unseat Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1987 before embarking on his five-year presidential term in 1999. No stranger to controversy, Rau suggested in a farewell speech that negativity among German leaders had driven the country toward "collective depression...
...summer 2006 gardens. But even if he goes back, he says, he doesn't think he can spend more than two additional seasons in the Hamptons. "Walking the streets of Tuxpan, I know who I am," he says. "Over there, even after all these years, I am just a stranger...