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...story of the baby in the little ark woven of reeds is a favorite among some scholars who believe Moses was a creation of the ancient Hebrews' binding together their own national epic out of the tales of neighbors. They point out that a birth narrative of Sargon of Akkad, a Mesopotamian King who ruled in the millennium before Moses, reads, "My priestly mother conceived me, in secret she bore me. She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid." There is also the Egyptian legend of the god Horus, who is hidden...
...Redmond, Wash., didn't have enough trouble, counterfeit copies of Microsoft's Windows 98 have landed in the U.S. The company has this warning: check your disc. True copies have a hologram near the hole in the middle that flips from "genuine" to "Microsoft," plus a heat-sensitive thread woven into the certificate of authenticity. A fake might work, but if it malfunctions, tech support won't be able to do a thing...
...drunkenly drawls out the lyrics, vividly mirroring the sloshing of her friend's life, Williams performed a rather toned-down version. But she seemed more contemplative, more reflective. After the awkward anguish of Angel," Williams was finally ready to actively reveal her true self. Her words and lyrics were woven so seamlessly with the subdued melody of "Greenville": "You're not my man," she sights, "Go back to Greenville." Here she silently commanded, almost begging--eyes sparkling with emotion--even more tremulous than on her record...
...Thus, woven into the story are amusing but nevertheless tender accounts of what it meant to grow up in a world built entirely on a pretense of keeping up appearances. But just like all those lost and mentally unstable Lowells and Winslows (the author's equally snobbish relatives on the paternal side), Cousin itself is never quite sure what it is. At times it is a barrage of various bildungsroman tales, the coming-of-age stories of various Lowell and Winslow family scions. At other times it is a relentless catalogue of family members moving in and out of prep...
...second reason for the proliferation of psychotherapy was on account of the admiration of its founder. By the 1940s, Sigmund Freud had become a cherished figure in American pop culture; phrases like sibling rivalry, the Oedipus complex and Freudian slips were already seamlessly woven into the vernacular. Psychotherapy seemed like an application of Freudian doctrine. No one thought it could be a perversion...