Word: instead
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...Baptism, while including ghosts and spirits, follows the lives of two kidnapping victims, one black, one white. In A Visitation of Spirits, the teenage Horace Cross attempts to transform himself into a bird to escape the ostracism he will face if his homosexuality is exposed in his religious community. Instead he unleashes an army of demons that haunt him as he is haunted by what he sees as his sin. It is with Horace that Kenan claims the most affinity, and his plight seems a supernatural rendering of Kenan's experience of coming to terms with his own homosexuality...
...Elian wore when he arrived from Washington, a capitalist contrast to the Young Communist Pioneer scarves that dozens of his shouting, flag-waving Cuban classmates donned to greet him. In a calculated show of political restraint, Castro didn't come to the airport to hail the pint-size icon. Instead, he broadcast a Cuban animated cartoon character to welcome Elian on national television--Elpidio Valdes, the patriotic, machete-swinging colonel who tells children to eat their vegetables, brush their teeth, and recently exhorted them to march against Elian's imperialist "Miami kidnappers." It was a cuddlier reminder of the dour...
...equation starts to shift, though, as you near retirement age. In some cases, late in your career--say, five years from retirement--it makes sense to stop contributing to tax-deferred accounts and stash your money in a taxable low-cost stock-index fund instead. Why? Because the compounding effect of tax-free investing needs years to overcome the higher tax rate applied to such accounts at the time of withdrawal. And taxable accounts get the benefit of skipping capital-gains tax altogether when the account changes hands at death...
...came on hard and fast. I used it in the subway to send a message to a friend in Prague. I sent love notes to my boyfriend while lounging in Central Park. And the one-sentence news updates made me feel totally plugged in. But the clincher was this: instead of looking like just another annoying yuppie yapping on my cell phone for all the world to hear, I could discreetly type messages in silence. People around me could see I was typing something, but who knew if it was a memo to the President or a reminder...
Meanwhile, the V series languished at the bottom of my briefcase. When I tried to use the minibrowser, the postage stamp-size screen made "browsing" a fantasy. Instead I was stuck with a series of multiple-choice menus that felt like the sats all over again. Besides, typing on a cell phone is bizarre. To produce a D, for example, you hit the 3 key once. To type an F, you hit the same key three times...