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Doesn't anyone find it strange that over the years this man has worn white shoes, white socks, a white suit, a white tie, a pair of white gloves, a pair of white glasses...practically all the time? JOHN P. SHEEHY Larkspur, Calif...
...that I saw, I could never really belong. My grandmother gave me a delicate gold crucifix on a chain when I made my First Holy Communion (the gift is a tradition on the Italian Catholic side of the family), and it crossed my mind that perhaps I should have worn it. In a sense, I wanted my crucifix to be my excuse, my reason for not getting the subtle jokes and for keeping to myself in the film discussions that followed the screening. At the last minute, I thought better of advertising my Catholicism so conspicuously, yet I remained absent...
WASHINGTON: "Free the snippets!" That's the message reporters have worn on buttons since way back on the second day of the Microsoft trial, after Redmond lawyers began to use the defense that the government was taking "snippets of e-mail" and Microsoft memos out of context. Five weeks and a deluge of damning "snippets" later, it's still the company line -- as shown by Bill Gates's interview with the Associated Press late Wednesday, in which the software titan accuses the government of doing its best "to put words in my mouth." Not surprisingly, Gates now says he would...
...sincere to the point of incredulity) gets knocked around by McCormack and her teenage son, both of whom run in faster lanes than he. When the son (Ryan Reynolds ) walks in on a steamy moment, Tommy tries to apologize in a fatherly manner, but finds that the son (a worn veteran of libido) takes good-hearted revenge by describing past sexual exploits that leave Tommy speechless...
...born Matthew McClendon, and "Alex" is just a preferred middle name, like the preferred female persona he has worn for the past two years. After an initial double take, Alex's peers didn't pay much heed to their cross-dressing classmate. But Alex engendered quite an outcry from others in his conservative rural community. Parents of kids in younger grades complained that Alex was negatively influencing their children. After a closed-door session, the school demanded that Alex either start dressing like a boy or leave...