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...would seem like a freak," he recalls. But after a few embarrassing stumbles--he couldn't even find the school rest rooms anymore--he admitted he needed help. For Erik, the key was acceptance--not to fight his disability but to learn to work within it; not to transcend it but to understand fully what he was capable of achieving within it; not to pretend he had sight but to build systems that allowed him to excel without it. "It's tragic--I know blind people who like to pass themselves off as being able to see," Erik says. "What...
...types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith insecure. "We've actually scaled back from making the biggest one," says McMullen. "It was a little out of control." Cupping the pendulous breasts, which feel like, uh, breasts, I have to agree. They transcend Dolly. They mock Pamela...
...over to the messiness of matrimony and child rearing: the cellulite and sinks-full-of-dishes part of family life where there are no "rules" and where couples decide, sometimes daily, to "stick it out." Krasnow believes, and I agree, that a conscious commitment to marriage can help couples transcend the grind of everyday life and create a marriage that is happily imperfect. Especially poignant are her accounts of people who have fled marriages to be with that elusive soul mate of their middle-aged fantasy. Not surprisingly, the soul mates turn into ordinary spouses sooner or later...
...work as a critic, I have often been attacked for maintaining too high a standard, demanding far more than a group of students could ever possibly give. If I have been reserved in my praise of undergraduate theater, it was in preparation for a show that could transcend limitations across campus, a show so powerfully cohesive that it might just elevate Harvard out of the theatrical laughing stock of Boston area colleges. I found that show in The Great God Brown...
...Despite this week's dramatic escalation - Palestinians firing mortars from Gaza into Israel; Israel for the first time reoccupying territory ceded to Arafat under the Oslo agreement - neither Sharon nor Arafat has a strategy to transcend the increasingly violent impasse. Arafat can harass and occasionally provoke the Israelis, but he can't alter the strategic balance; Sharon can pound and pummel Arafat's resources but he can't subdue Palestinian militancy. So even as violence increases, politically the situation remains at a stalemate. And that's likely to mean Secretary of State Powell will find himself devoting more...