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The scariness, of course, cuts both ways. I was on a plane in the spring of 2003 when the flight attendant asked us to pray for our troops in Iraq. It was a prickly time, but brand-new war or no

Ballyhoo rehearsed all summer and opened in Atlantic City in August of 1932, in the Nixon Theater on the Steel Pier. Opening night was a shambles, with everything going wrong, from the electrical

Until the draft notice arrived, just days after his thirtieth birthday. The army wanted him while it could still get him: in a year he'd no longer be eligible. Despite his wholehearted patriotism,

Torkin Wakefield, a former Peace Corps volunteer and longtime aid worker, was strolling through the Ugandan capital of Kampala one day with her grown daughter, Devin Hibbard, and her friend Ginny

The triumph of mind over matter (Newton Paley) It's always an emotional moment running across a sweetheart from your youth that you haven't seen in twenty-five years. But when the circumstances are

But despite my suspicion that I'd just been Castaneda'ed, one odd incident helped spur me to stay on the hunt. Angel had let us spend the night in the only room he had free, a tiny mud-brick hut used

But despite my suspicion that I'd just been Castaneda'ed, one odd incident helped spur me to stay on the hunt. Angel had let us spend the night in the only room he had free, a tiny mud-brick hut used

A Modest Proposal Just when you thought you'd never get married By David Sedaris London is five hours ahead of Washington, D.C., except when it comes to gay marriage. In that case, it's two years

The production was filmed by a British technical crew in BBC's largest London studio. Hope's writers didn't get to see much of the city. According to one, Marty Ragaway, they were forced to spend

Nineteen ten was also a schizoid year for Berlin, the last year of apprenticeship and subservience. His salary came from his employer, the man whose name was on the door, the tall. bony fellow who sat

Whether or not rising nationalism results in missiles flying around Asia, a war is already under way in the region. It kills three million people each year, mostly children and the elderly, and yet it

Final painful truth: Even Alan Webb Says "Human Beings Are Designed to Run Without Shoes" Before Alan Webb became America's greatest miler, he was a flatfooted frosh with awful form. But his high

Get thee behind me Satan (Luke 4:5-8 (King James Version)) I was thinking about Burn's remark, "the rank is but the demon's stamp." And I said, really, probably by the time this program goes out in

A man in Maggie Valley, N.C., often gets backyard visitors. Jim Beaver told WLOS-TV this Thanksgiving it was a bull elk. Beaver said elk like to play with the hammock on his apple tree and sometimes

When Libutti crapped out, though, the charming and generous spirit disappeared in less time than it took a dealer to call the dice. Libutti's superstitions joined with his fury at losing to bring

(On Woodstock) Martin Scorsese: It's true. Because we were documenting an historic event. It was becoming an historic event that Friday night. I mean, some people were just not meant for it. I'm not

Tilzer, not yet thirty but prematurely balding, with a long, sensitive face, took one look at this fourteen-year-old street kid - small, dark-eyed, full of beans - and felt some kind of pull. No doubt

Why is Japan so reluctant to confront its past? Apart from cultural explanations, such as a Confucian reluctance to speak ill of dead ancestors, there is an obvious reason: Countries, far more than

Beggars cannot be choosers (old proverb) I had this letter this morning from Mr. Hopcroft. And it was very harshly critical of my diction. And Mr. Hopcroft protested that I didn't pronounce my R's

PAINFUL TRUTH No.2: Feet Like a Good Beating As far back as I988, Dr. Barry Bates, the head of the University of Oregon's Biomechanics/Sports Medicine Laboratory, gathered data that suggested that