intense geekhood would wear that dress on an "American Idol"-style show. Only someone who was either mocking herself or who was an actress pretending to be a Susan Boyle type of person. It is a bad world in which to be an almost-50-year-old virgin, ...
By all rights, Let Me Stand Alone should not be an easy book to read. Doom hangs over this collection of the journal writings of Rachel Corrie, who was a 23-year-old American peace activist when she was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces ...
Many travelers to the Vaucluse are like me: they believe that among the joys life can provide, one of the most moving is to plant oneself before the sausage stand in the Place de l’Église, in l’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, during the Sunday market, and just ...
In history, documents come and documents go. But sometimes one would dearly love to know the exact provenance of a document and see its pages. It was odd to watch Benazir Bhutto's will suddenly emerge this week and, as if her hands were shooting out ...
When you know someone personally and have seen them recently, their death at the hands of terrorists seems more real, and more nauseating, than when you hear about the terrible killings of strangers. Somehow, you are more likely to imagine real flesh ...
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