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Before the Sunday sun lights the horizon, a handful of chosen men will enter the holiest sanctuary to hear Mass from priests hidden behind a wall of vivid icons. The rest are content just to be among people who believe as they believe. Soon, they say, the Patriarch will appear with the Ark to pronounce his blessing. Calmly, serenely, the pilgrims wait. By noon, the Patriarch has come and gone in a brisk flourish of gilded robes. There is no Ark, and the blessing is delivered swiftly amid a crush of baton-swinging soldiers and security guards. But the pilgrims...
...knowing they would get found out sooner or later anyway? Or are they overtaken by grandiosity, the need to be at the center of their own melodrama? Former Cabinet member Robert Reich didn't make things up until he left office. But then he packed his memoirs with numerous vivid scenes, including a Congressman jumping up and down screaming and an attack by cigar-puffing capitalists at a lunch, which Slate magazine showed in an Internet minute did not happen. And what was Senator Robert Torricelli thinking when he recalled with great emotion the anti-Italian bias he felt when...
...Humphreys once wrote, "of the noblest Buddhist principles and debased sorcery." Its core, as with all Buddhism, is a belief in suffering and emptiness, and the need for compassion in the face of those. But unlike the stripped-down austerities of Zen, say, Tibetan Buddhism swarms with animist spirits, vivid symbolic depictions of copulating bodies, and Tantric practices of magic and sexuality that, taken out of context or practiced without the right training, are inflammable...
...seems to me that Nicole Contos' aborted wedding represents a minor but vivid defining moment in the battle between the sexes. Women who heard about the case--and after a while last week it was hard not to hear about it--tended to go atavistic, as Katie Couric did. A couple of women lawyers I informally consulted misplaced for the moment their respect for due process; they agreed with Couric, drew a sharp, gleaming knife and applied it mentally to a target just south of the groom's waistline. If he doesn't like it, let the bastard go sing...
...instructing our delegation right now to show increased negotiating flexibility if a comprehensive plan can be put in place," Gore announced at the end of a vivid (and lengthy) exposition on global warming. Few at the 160-nation meeting knew exactly what that meant. Greenpeace complained the speech was full of "hot air;" European Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard said he was "disappointed" that "the rhetoric was not met by the reality." And the U.S. business community ? from which Gore would like at least a measure of support in 2000 ? wasn't happy either. William F. O'Keefe, head...