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...solution was not to attach himself to a court, as West did, but to pretend to be a native aristocrat. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834, and partly raised in Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early in his life that he was no prosaic Yankee, but a Southern gentleman from Baltimore, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point, but was flunked in 1854 for his cluelessness about chemistry. "Had silicon been...
...Swan Lake, why is Prince Siegfried so overwrought when he goes hunting if his mother has not commanded him to find a suitable bride? In this version she just hands her boy a bow and arrow and trips off, doubtless to a good gossip with her courtiers. Or why make such a fuss about a glass slipper when Cinderella's prince walks into her house and recognizes her without fitting the slipper on her foot...
...into a skittish travelogue that ends up in Canada. Still, Willis' aggrieved burliness is always persuasive, and red-meat lovers will have an agreeably volatile two hours of fantasy-if, that is, they can keep one word out of their minds: militia. A scary scenario on that subject is doubtless being drafted for next summer's macho blockbuster...
...name of Islam and the larger Arab or Muslim community. And yet, at the same time, he confounds his own logic, planting the seed in his audience's imagination for lumping all the people with the funny Middle Eastern names into one great, big and undivided whole. Doubtless, some of his very best friends are Arabs...
...came to TIME looking for a new challenge, and a major one awaited her: the story of O.J. Simpson's murder trial. Last month Gleick wrote the cover story on the opening of the trial, and we shall doubtless hear more from her on that subject. Says senior editor Howard Chua-Eoan, who has worked with her both at PEOPLE and TIME: ``She has a particular talent for delineating character, for sifting through reporting for the detail that is just right. She would always display the most poignant evidence of a subject's heart--or lack...