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Dagan laid the garland on the shoveled earth that day, but a month later she still can't believe her beautiful daughter, 24, who had studied sociology and wanted to become a travel agent and who had kept a worn Alf doll on her bed, won't be celebrating her wedding next month as planned. Dagan leafs through Danit's datebook, recovered from the wreckage in Cafe Moment; she rereads text messages from Uri, Danit's fiance, on her daughter's red Nokia cell phone. "Uri loves Danit," says one. Then the last message: "Tonight at Moment...
...Gollob, his career was "an adventure in the exciting and political New York literary scene, crackling with suspense." But by the time he was ready to retire, he recalls, "a certain weariness had begun to overtake me. In fact, I'd begun to resemble my briefcase--outside, battered and worn; inside, musty and cluttered...
...particularly trying, though not half as trying as reading about it. Numerous flawed coming-of-age tales litter bargain bins and discount bookstores everywhere. Most attempts at capturing the magic of that unique transition from child to man fall short, relying on clichés which grow ever more worn with each use. Childhood becomes a time of pure joy and nostalgia, else it is a gauntlet of foster homes, neglect and other contrivances designed to elicit a sympathetic response...
Finished with his call, he sits down on a worn burgundy sofa. “I’m not sure what I do. I do research. I watch people,” Kaptchuk muses. “The world I was trained in is pre-scientific. I try to use my training to function in both worlds.” A Columbia graduate, Kaptchuk became interested in alternative and Chinese traditional medicine in the sixties. “I didn’t want to do anything that could be considered collaboration,” he says, explaining...
...softball diamond, however, it was different. Wearing my newly oiled glove—well, it’s not like it gets too worn in at home in London—I helped the Crimson team to another 23-2 victory. This was it, I thought: a turning point. Come what may, I was an all-American boy. England had much to offer, but the crack of the bat was just too much to resist. It was in my blood, you see. Nature had at last won out over nurture. And then the game was written up in Monday?...