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...soon after Lieberman and his wife heard on television that he had been chosen as Gore's running mate, they joined their daughter Hana and Lieberman's 85-year-old mother Marcia around the breakfast table. Lieberman offered a homemade prayer in Hebrew. "We thank God for this miracle upon us, through a wonderful person like Al Gore and through God's will." The family repeated the prayer in English, says Marcia, "just so we could hear it again. God was smiling on us." If the smiles keep coming and if the Gore-Lieberman ticket wins, it will be interesting...
...torn asunder families, communities and congregations," he writes. He describes the embarrassment and rage felt by more liberal Jews at Yale University when some Orthodox students sued to avoid living in co-ed dorms; the dismay of the alumni of a secular Jewish summer camp in New York State upon discovering that their alma mater had been supplanted by the ultra-Orthodox community of Monsey; and the pressures that drove a troubled Orthodox gas-station cashier in Jacksonville, Fla., to plant a bomb (nonoperative, he claims from prison) in a Conservative synagogue attended by members of his own family...
...Once upon a time (in the West), Eastwood was the grizzled loner, using the Old Testament playbook to clean up Tombstone or San Francisco. Here he's surrounded by other gents of a certain age: hotdogging fly-boys of the '50s named Hawk (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry (Donald Sutherland) and Tank (James Garner) who were pioneers in Air Force research but got passed over for the first U.S. astronaut program. An old Soviet satellite is about to crash to earth, threatening humanity; since Frank built the technology the Russkies swiped, his expertise is needed. He insists on going...
...that tub. Jayne Singer, 46, a special-ed teacher, found that the stresses of her job helping inner-city Los Angeles teens were taking a toll on her face. She tried toners, pore cleansers, eye creams and masks of egg yolk and witch hazel. Nothing worked. Then she hit upon glycolic peels and fruit acids. She effuses, "They're melting away layers. Of work? Or skin? Who knows...
...Stoughton Hall student reported to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) that she lost her wallet. An officer was dispatched to take a report. Upon arrival, the officer stated that the student was not home and left a note on the student's door...