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...find the good sections. When we were draped over futon and chair and carpet, reading each other passages from the paper—“Hey, can you believe what Condoleeza Rice said?”—it reminded me of those childhood Sunday mornings, except with less competition for the sports section. When I glanced up from the style section, we looked sort of like a family. When I glanced up, it felt sort of like home...
...Cambridge that his visa forms lacked an important signature from the HIO. In the past, he said, the office had reported missing components of his applications significantly ahead of time. When Dorin reported the omission, the HIO told him that there was nothing he could do—except to plead for an exception with the customs officer...
...could call it an Asian invasion, except that none of these designers would classify his look in such confining geographic and cultural terms, even though each admits that his work is informed by his roots in unexpected ways. "I am not the type to splash dragons all over the clothes," says Som, 33, who grew up in San Francisco, the son of Hong Kong-born architects. Indeed, his clothes are more C.Z. Guest than Suzy Wong, yet he acknowledges that his clean lines and color sense are inspired by traditional Asian architecture and the vibrancy of Asian textiles...
...Except for the elections--which seem highly unlikely at this point--all of Bush's statements have the virtue of being either true, truish or unprovable. His argument is tight, concise and, so far, impregnable. It is also a clever distortion of reality. If the National Intelligence Estimate is accurate, we are facing a far more dangerous world than existed before the war. Many intelligence and military experts now believe that al-Qaeda has rebuilt its leadership structure and metastasized; that the U.S. military is overburdened and its leaders are likely to tell the next President that they lack...
Friends since first grade--except for latecomer West, who arrived in third grade when his family moved from another Bronx neighborhood--they reflect a time when the kids you played with at 6 were often still your classmates at 16. Born to lower-middle-class Jewish parents, many of whom were immigrants who wanted something better for their children, the Bronx Boys have let neither geography nor time interfere as, one by one, they moved away from the old neighborhood...