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...While it is self-centered in the sense of being autobiographical, “Magical Thinking” elicits much more than mere pity or sympathy in the reader.“Magical Thinking” is Didion’s account of the year following her husband John Gregory Dunne’s death of “a sudden massive coronary event” on the evening of December 30, 2003. Five days prior to Dunne’s death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne had gone to the emergency room with a flu that had become pneumonia...
...Even some residents feel it's time to let the Ninth die peacefully. Across Flood Street from Hagan's home, Dahlre Brown, 42, and her husband, Edward Brooks, 36, warily entered their house after driving in from Brookhaven, Miss., where they plan to settle permanently now. "The fact is," said Brown, watching Salvation Army and EPA vans cruise the block, "this is a crime-ridden area and not an especially good place to raise kids. Over in Brookhaven they've got a 15-mph speed limit for school zones. Here they'll run your kids over." Brown points inside...
...lesbian couples who are just not interested in marriage. There are also a lot of gay and lesbian couples like my partner and me who are ambivalent-still, I call him my boyfriend. (Laughs.) My son is always correcting me-"No, he's your husband!" He's more comfortable with the idea now than we are. There's this sense that these are borrowed garments we're wearing right now. All cultures create their own marriage rituals and symbols. I don't think gays and lesbians have had enough time with this to have created their own marriage rituals...
...visiting from Australia, expresses a mixture of defiance and resignation that reflects how inured many of us have become to the notion that terrorists can strike anytime, anywhere. Standing in front of the blasted remnants of the Raja restaurant in Kuta, the 39-year-old homemaker says she, her husband Greg and their three children arrived in Bali just three days after the bombs went off. "Our neighbors think we're crazy, but Bali isn't the only place that has bomb threats," says Davies. "It happens everywhere?look at London. We even had one at home in Melbourne." Besides...
DIED. BETTY LESLIE-MELVILLE, 78, conservationist who spent much of her life creating sanctuaries in Africa in a successful push to save the Rothschild's giraffe, a white-legged subspecies, from extinction; in Baltimore, Md. She and her husband, whose house in Kenya often had giraffes poking their heads in the windows, helped raise the breed's population from 120 in the 1960s...