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...have them to ourselves. As they get older, we have the share them more, both with their friends and with their need for solitude. They prize these brief but recurring alliances with their Summer Friends. They've never see each other in school clothes, don't know who threw up in math class, don't know who sits where in the cafeteria...
FOUND NOT GUILTY. Andrea Yates, 42, Texas mother, in the 2001 bathtub drownings of her five children; by reason of insanity; in her second trial, after an appeals court last year threw out her 2002 murder conviction because of erroneous testimony; in Houston. Prosecutors argued Yates failed to meet the definition of insanity because she was fully aware that her actions were wrong. But Yates' lawyers claimed severe postpartum psychosis made her so delusional that she thought the drownings were right. After 12 hours of deliberation, the jury sided with the defense. Following the verdict, Yates was committed...
...around the corner from my apartment on Sharia Pakistan in Damascus, the irony of his current plight is not lost on him. Last year, Wehbe, 26, joined thousands of his countrymen on the streets of Beirut to call for an end to Syria's domination of his homeland, and threw a heady, vodka-fueled "Liberation Festival" in his Hamra apartment when they officially withdrew. Then, last Thursday, the graphic designer, his parents and brother paid a cabdriver $2,500 to drive them out of Beirut to the heart of Syria, and safety...
...medical equipment of a sick man. They gawked at the scores of pairs of shoes of a rich woman. One visitor was reminded of a line from the Japanese poet Basho: 'Autumn leaves, the remains of a samurai's dream' ... A few came to plunder and destroy. ONE MAN THREW A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DEPARTED FIRST LADY INTO AN ORNAMENTAL FISH POOL. But mostly, since an invitation to the Malacañang Palace had long been considered a jewel beyond price to the average Filipino, they came as tourists and as survivors. One excited old man said he had lived...
...most reputable house (Knopf) and wrote popular books that became hit movies, weren't considered the equals of "serious" novelists. They wrote genre fiction. The New Yorker critic (and novelist) Edmund Wilson could find "the boys in the back room" lacking. Then came another irony. Later generations of critics threw off their pretensions and mined the gritty glories of pulp fiction; they cogently argued that Hammett and Chandler, and Thompson and David Goodis and others, were worth cherishing (and that writers like Wilson, who's forgotten today as a novelist, weren't.) Yet in this rush to validate the pulps...