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...times it's disconcerting--to feel unfamiliar in your own skin, to wake up, as I have, ensnared in a cultural Venus fly trap slowly eating away at your former self. And more unsettling than a vindaloo--fiery hot with cinnamon, cardamom, cumin and peppercorns--is the suspicion that, innocent and unaware, I was anesthetized by an urban predator, and now must lay paralyzed as the city alters my very being...
WATCH IT The SEC recently issued a warning to investors about drawbacks relating to variable annuities--retirement tools that are a cross between a mutual fund and an insurance policy. Much of the increased popularity of these annuities is due to bonuses offered by companies seeking to lure investors unfamiliar with the instruments. The SEC maintains the bonuses are often undercut by hidden, higher withdrawal fees...
...After eight years, the administration may have finally learned that fast, full disclosure is the best scandal-douser. The 150 pages (gist: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'fund-raiser' is") don't seem to contain any legal red flags, at least for lay readers unfamiliar with the minutiae of the case, which is pretty much everybody outside the Justice Department. And Gore's releasing them himself is an unmistakable signal that he's confident of his innocence, or at least his defense: a really bad memory and a very small bladder. It's also the best...
Seen through Jim's eyes, everything that happens to him seems strange and somehow magical. On his first major journey, a trip in a truck with Uncle Al to South Carolina to see about buying some horses, Jim looks out at unfamiliar farmhouses and thinks, "People live here. They don't know who I am." Uncle Al makes a side trip to Myrtle Beach so that Jim can get his first look at the Atlantic: "He wished that just for a moment, until he grew used to the sight, the ocean would simply hold still. But the waves lined...
...Those unfamiliar with the University's inner workings might expect this search to be fairly simple--provost to president...