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...Hitler proclaimed, "The Soviet Union is finished." But by then the Germans poised at the gates of Moscow were exhausted, cold and dispirited. On Dec. 5, as the Japanese sailed toward Pearl Harbor, the Soviet army launched a massive counterattack along a 560-mile front. The Fritzes were thrown back by its ferocity. A German reporter assigned to the front recalls coming upon a soldier staggering out of a wood screaming "Aah! Come and help me! I can't see. They've gouged out my eyes." Soldiers had attacked him with a knife, slashing his eyes but taking care...
Wideman read a story called "The Newborn Thrown in the Trash Dies." The story, told from a baby's standpoint, kept the audience in a chilling silence...
...sure that Duke will be turn out to be a hateful racist if elected Governor, but it's a pretty good bet. Putting this man in the governor's office is a risk we should not take. Anyone who has said the things David Duke has said should be thrown out of politics...
...lucky I was as old as I am," said Byatt. "If I'd had a big success in my twenties it would have thrown me out.... You don't notice [fame] so much in a way, you still spend time on your own. Writing has to be done on your own, alone. You don't take to it unless you like to shut yourself in a room for eight months of a year...
Many therapists are cross-fertilizers, picking up bits of different disciplines. Greer Jonas does reflexology with some aromatherapy thrown in; she is also licensed for Swedish massage. Jonas works in her clean, well- lighted apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Hanging crystals tinkle before an open window. Brown and blue bottles of lavender, rosemary and rose essence exude their fragrances. Lavender relaxes the client, Jonas advises. Rosemary "breaks up fibrous tissue" when massaged into a woman's breasts. "The body holds a lot of memories," she says. "You touch an area, and sometimes the person starts to cry." Jonas...