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...book in 1998 that explained just how the French writer, who died in 1922, can change your life. Cate Blanchett's character in The Life Aquatic attempts to read In Search of Lost Time to her unborn child. Proust is mentioned casually in so many newspaper articles that blogger Tom Tomorrow created 'Spot the Pretentious Proust Reference', a game to seek out the Proustian name-droppings in the New York Times. Indeed, if you search Proust on the NYT website, you'll find 1,688 references since 1981, almost five hundred of which have occurred in the past 6 years...
...captivity, Carroll, then 28, was moved to six separate safe houses. She says she was treated well: apart from being kept in confined spaces and denied exercise, she was well fed and allowed to bathe. She also bore witness to the curious behavior coming from her captors: they watched Tom and Jerry cartoons when the television set wasn't tuned to the Koran channel; one guard insisted she interview him again and again, forcing her to copy down every word in perfect detail. Another, whom she describes as one of the better-educated guards, spent his time reading from...
...matured past childhood knows of the need to cooperate with others to do anything constructive. Bullies may win for a while, but they never succeed in the end - and their end is always ignominious. The Bush Administration must be held accountable for what it should have known. Tom Ehlinger Bloomington, Minnesota, U.S. Missile Madness Re "The Kim conundrum" [July 17], on the problem posed by North Korea's nuclear program and missile tests: Your story said, "Despite the fact that the government of South Korea has little to show for it, polls there suggest people still support the 'sunshine' policy...
...rule, Time South Pacific reports on the region's most influential people. Here, our focus is on Australians who live away from the big cities and reveal other facets of the nation's character. Tom Dusevic met Peter Burton, who turns grass into T-bones in the Kimberley; Elizabeth Keenan visited the kitchen of Warrant Officer John Benstead, 22 years an Army cook and now based in Townsville; Michael Fitzgerald tracked down Doug Pekin, a dogger who maintains 500 km of dingo-proof fence on the Nullarbor; Daniel Williams joined hands at a Sunday service with the dwindling faithful...
...Springvale homestead, an hour's drive from Halls Creek, was the home of legendary cattleman and bush poet Tom Quilty. Until the 1886 gold rush, the station was one of this region's few inhabited places. Historian Geoffrey Blainey described men with gold lust traveling the final 1,000 km from Katherine. "The manager of Spring Vale reported that 'great numbers of men from Queensland have passed by, some of them very undesirable characters, who prefer picking their own beef and horse-flesh,'" he writes in The Rush That Never Ended. "They faked the brands on their stolen horses with...