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WARREN ST. JOHN and ALEX WILLIAMS on today’s NYT provide good news for you night owls. The notion that early risers live more healthily and are more productive is a self-promotional myth. People need to find the sleeping patterns that suits them best! The Crow of the Early Bird Mr. Iger, who is married to the television journalist Willow Bay, with whom he has four children, is up at 4:30 in the morning, works out and arrives in the office by 6:30.“I only need 5 hours of sleep.” Liar!
The New York Times, March 14, profile of Robert A. Iger, the new president of the Walt Disney Compan
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I read for the first time today what Kennan wrote in 1946. I replaced in my mind the words “Soviet Union” with “Al Queida” and “communism” with “terrorism.” From this vantage point, the last paragraph becomes particularly insightful into our current situation. WORD FOR WORD | COLD WARRIOR GEORGE F. KENNAN, who died Thursday at 101, was “the nearest thing to a legend that this country’s diplomatic service has ever produced,” the historian Ronald Steel has said. He was the man who proposed “containment,” the cornerstone of the cold war, as a way to oppose the Soviet Union.What George F. Kennan might have written about the thread of Al Queida
The Man Who Took the Measure of the Communist Threat
By PETER EDIDIN in NY Times:
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A few days ago, I read this wonderful short piece by Lawrence Raab in a book entitled “The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms” (p. 260). Because so much consequential thinking Why It Often Rains in the Movies
happens in the rain. A steady mist
to recall departures, a bitter downpour
for betrayal. As if the first thing
a man wants to do when he learns his wife
is sleeping with his best friend, and has been
for years, the very first thing
is not to make a drink, and drink it,
and make another, but to walk outside
into bad wheather. It’s true
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As far as stories goes, this one printed in today’s New York Times is a pretty good one… Charles Calls End to the Affair: He’ll Happily Wed His Camilla LONDON, Feb. 10 - They have been friends for more than 30 years and lovers for most of that time. They have survived marriages to and divorces from other people; the icy disapproval of relatives; the resentment of the public; and, perhaps most excruciating of all, the publication of intimate details of their risquPrince Charles to Marry His Lover
By SARAH LYALL
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Verylyn Klinkenborg published today interesting travel notes in the NY Times. Rereading the Landscape of an Essay by Joan Didion SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. Forty years ago this month, a housewife named Lucille Miller - just turning 35 - came to trial in San Bernardino for the murder of her husband, a dentist who was named Gordon Miller and called Cork. The murder was a clumsy one. Cork Miller burned to death in the back seat of a 1964 Volkswagen. According to the district attorney, Lucille Miller intended to make it look as if the car had rolled over an embankment and burst into flames. She would have had time in that deserted neighborhood to get home before the accident was reported. Instead, the car got stuck in the sand in low gear, and burst into flames anyway.The Golden Dream Goes on and on in Southern California
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There is an iron-law of film-making that every director should recognize: When the script is poor, it is impossible to create a good film. Million Dollar Baby has noble intentions. It wants to be deep. Towards the end, it surprisingly gains gravitas and you want to forget that three quarters of the movie were slow and banal, especially for a guy like myself who thinks that deriving joy from watching peeople beat each other up (boxing) is infantile. I don’t mind a martial arts film because martial arts is all about self-defense and not pointless thrashing.Million Dollar Baby
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