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Only the deaf know Hounslow. The west London borough sits uncomfortably beneath the flight paths of nearby Heathrow Airport, where many of the vicinity's largely immigrant Indian and Pakistani residents labor as porters, cleaners and security guards - dreaming of escape, a better life for their children and, for now...
Pity the poorbody. Since philosopher Ren Descartes uncoupled it from the mind in the 17th century, it has been second banana. Storytellers have fetishized the mind and exalted it as the locus of character and the self. The body has been along mainly for the ride ever since, the...
On Saturday Night Live in 1977, writer-performer Al Franken - or, in the comic self-promotional character he played called "Me, Al Franken" - announced that he might run for President. In 2008, he will most likely run for U.S. Senator from his home state of Minnesota. As he says of...
Don't want to see Tom Cruise bouncing off the walls again in the latest Mission Improbable? Don't want to see the SS Poseidon go belly up again and watch all those tired character actors go glub-glub-glub? Can't say I blame you. With pictures like these...
To the editors: Re: “A Tarnished Opal,” editorial, Apr. 27. I am a parent who toured Harvard with my daughter. I remember exactly where I was standing when the guide told us that the freshman class included an author who was published at age...