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...divorce, Hanks moved constantly as a boy. But he seems loath to talk about his personal motivations, and when I suggest this Hanks-as-Odysseus thesis, he responds--in the most generous, droll, affable, Hanksian way--that I'm full of crap. "They each have their voyages, but I guess I don't see that [similarity]. The danger of getting home was inherent in Jim Lovell's choice to go to the moon. I guess Captain Miller [fits], but I don't think he ever thought he was going to get home. The question for him came down...
...What do you need? Jim Towey, president of Aging with Dignity in Tallahassee, Fla., encourages the direct approach: "Mom, Dad, I love you, and I want to be there when you need me, and I'd like to know what you want. I don't want to have to guess...
...That's a hard question, not one that a humanist concerns himself with too often. I guess it would be near water. But not just any water-it would have to be on a Great Lake. I can't stand salt water. It takes like chicken soup. You live out east, huh? Don't you get sick of the salt water...
...Well, if I really do take a railroad train to the afterlife, I would have no idea how to speak directly to him. It would be like talking to Shakespeare. How could I compete with God or him? I guess I would turn to Ben Franklin and ask him "How do you fucking talk to God?" [Laughs...
...side. But they're not trading on an inexhaustible supply of goodwill: Public perception of the prosecution of the Microsoft case is not altogether favorable. Many feel it's been a colossal and futile drain on government resources and taxpayer money. And at this point, it's anyone's guess how the suit will finally end; the government is required to respond to Microsoft's counteroffer by May 17, and Judge Jackson has indicated that he would like to wash his hands of the penalty phase of the trial by the end of May. Microsoft will counter that timetable, according...