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...questions of the moment: Where are we right now, and how far do we have to go to the next stop? The answer is that we are on page 3 of the itinerary, and today we will be traveling about this far (here the bus driver spreads his thumb and forefinger...
...categories, even when there is no evidence of past discrimination. Decisions should not be made exclusively on the basis of race or sex, explains Assistant Professor Kathleen Sullivan of the Harvard Law School. However, these factors can now be legally weighed in the balance, says Sullivan, "with a thumb on the scale...
...Dole, the most ordinary tasks pose extraordinary challenges. Buttoning his shirt, for example. Because there is no feeling in the tip of his left thumb and forefinger, he aligns the buttons by sight and gingerly guides them through the holes; each one can take ten minutes. In public appearances, he clasps a pen in his clawlike right hand to ward off aggressive handshakers who have not noticed his withered arm as they crowd around him, thrusting scraps of paper and clamoring for autographs. He responds patiently -- "I'm not a very good writer" -- and laboriously signs with his left hand...
...surface, this looks like The Ransom of Red Chief in one more modern movie variation. A couple of emotional nomads pull off a kidnaping, then work like thumb-tied demons to return the booty. But even the surface of a Coen brothers picture looks unlike any other. These two young guys from Minneapolis -- Joel, 32, who directs and writes, and Ethan, 29, who writes and produces -- proved with their debut film, the gory melodrama Blood Simple, that they are shrewd filmmakers who can give a skewed spin to a hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple...
Before college, even papers were a physical experience--ink smearing under my dragging hand, thumb cramping, tossing paper basketballs. Now it's efficient electronic blips and whirring magnetic fields, all hanging on the precarious edge of malfunction and evaporation...