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...years, I have suspected that others among the 88 million families who take annual vacations know magical ways to transform an unruly brood into a modern version of the Von Trapps, the tune-whistling family that managed in The Sound of Music to cross Central Europe on foot, without whining over whose turn it was to help the baby over the Alps. Then, a few weeks ago, psychologists at a meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society reported some research I find disturbing: vacations are good for your health, and measurably decrease a man's risk of dying young of heart...
From April 24 to May 2, the Society of Arab Students is promoting an Iraq Awareness Campaign and will be sponsoring speeches by Hans von Sponeck, the former U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, as well as Anthony Arnove, editor of the recently released work "Iraq Under Siege." The week aims to deconstruct the misleading portrait of Iraq which has become predominant in the U.S. media...
...von Sydow, (7) Jesus in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told. Von Sydow has been in 120 movies; you can take it from here...
...used for what he calls "the p word"--profiling--but rather for "threat assessment." Students, he says, are not examined unless they single themselves out by making a threat. But in today's anxious classrooms, threats are often defined broadly. Phyllis Hodges, an assistant principal at Chicago's Von Steuben High School, used the program to examine a student who was constantly picked on by peers for being effeminate. He had made disturbing comments in the past--for example, he vowed he would hurt classmates--yet his offense this time was less clear-cut. He refused to hand...
Bellow's novels have prompted this sort of what's-the-real-story queries before, most notably his Pulitzer prizewinning Humboldt's Gift (1975). In that book, the brilliant but mentally deteriorating poet Von Humboldt Fleisher was widely regarded as a fictional copy of Delmore Schwartz, a friend and onetime mentor to the young Bellow. The author never denied an imaginative connection between Humboldt and Schwartz, but neither did he think it a topic much worth discussing. And he was right. For a quarter-century, untold thousands of people who never heard of Delmore Schwartz have read Humboldt's Gift...