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What does it take to be a Survivor...
...declined comment on Brown or the selection process. But the Survivor application says that excellent physical and mental health are required; all 48 semi-finalists underwent psychological testing to ensure their mental fitness in addition to physical examinations...
...entered the year as a survivor playing out the string in a lame-duck presidency. She entered the year as the wronged spouse of a cad. He exits the year as the proud spouse of a newly elected U.S. Senator from New York, of all places. She exits the year as the Republican Party's worst nightmare this side of a dimpled chad. What a turn of events! When Hillary Clinton first paid court to retiring U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, folks in the know had several observations: "She wouldn't," "She can't," "She'll get thrashed...
Which isn't to say that all of the shows were worthless. Television's The West Wing was showered with Emmys, but more popular--and more weirdly gripping--was Survivor, starring 16 real people conniving on a tropical island. In the year 2000, professed reality battled abject fantasy for primacy. Theater, always about acting, got into the reality act with Lifegame, an improv based on events from audience members' lives. In books, true-life stories continued to sell, but nothing like the fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation...
...true that friendship is sometimes an exercise in compartmentalizing. We have all been friends with A. and with B., even though A. and B. hate each other. But to have one compartment for a friend who is a survivor of death camps and another compartment for one of the murderers---here broadmindedness approached the grotesque...