八秒钟

今天回家選擇了衛津路，沒有什麼特別的原因，只是每天從這條路走到學校，也想試試從這條路走回家。現在坐在電腦前明白自己的選擇是對的。

現在的6、7點剛是天快暗下來卻還存有餘輝的時刻，儘管如此，路邊許多商場、超市、飯店都亮起了霓虹燈，這樣的景象是早上6、7點所看不到的，這條路上的色彩也是其他路上看不到的，因此充滿了新鮮感。

因為我家小區的門前是高速路，順著高速路會有立交橋，這條路和橋將馬路兩邊徹底隔開，不想再高速路上 橫穿，因為不久前有人在那裏撞死過，甚是危險，所以只能選擇在彩虹花園門前的人行橋上通過，這才曉得我的助力車是個重量級“人物”。終於推倒上端，穿了口 氣後，有時自己屏住了呼吸，因為站在橋上俯視高速路的感覺實在是奇妙，車快速通過腳下，甚至有時會有一種共振感，整條高速路想C字型從遠處飛來又飛到另一 邊去了。

很多的事情都在改變，有人說現在的定義只有8秒鐘，那麼在過去的8秒鐘，未來的8秒鐘中，不知道有多少事情在悄然蛻變。剛剛從腳下通過的貨車已成為 遠方的 一個圓點，曾經廣為流傳的歌曲已不知滯留在何處，曾經擁有過的感情和事物也無從尋找。失去過後又得到新的事物，迎接未來的8秒帶來的喜悅和悲傷，那些未知 數可愛又可怕。也許在我的腦海中，只有回家的小路永遠不會改變，我戀家但是不是無法割捨的戀，是害怕有一天會失去這個完整的家，在我眼中少了誰都是一種空 缺，無法彌補的空缺。原諒我的自私，我只是想和大家——所有我愛的人都快樂的生活在現在的8秒和以後的8秒中，不要改變，不要未知……

There are plenty of reasons to defend Sanjaya

To hear critics talk, Sanjaya Malakar’s ascendancy to the final eight on “American Idol�? is a travesty, threatening the success of the show’s brand name and the credibility of the musical competition. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

Sanjaya is not the best singer in the history of the competition. He’s not even the best of this season’s finalists. But he’s not a disaster either. In fact, those who are looking to tear him down or use him as an example of the show’s weakness need to keep a few things in mind before ranting away.

Sanjaya’s not the one who put himself into the semifinals
Every time the judges rip on Sanjaya, or insinuate that he shouldn’t be on the show, keep in mind that it wasn’t the show’s viewers who made him a candidate in the first place. That honor belongs to none other than the three judges; Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, and Simon Cowell.

Those are the three who pick the show’s 24 semifinalists, and the viewers have no say in the process until that stage of the game. Moreover, the producers, editors and judges set Malakar up in a great position to succeed by giving him a ton of airtime on the audition episodes, then making him the only teenager among the 12 male finalists. In a crowded semifinal field, he stood out for his youth, giving him an early voting bloc at a time when some rivals were struggling to get their names out there.

So if the viewers are being dumb and short-sighted by continuing to vote for Sanjaya, what does that make the people who put his candidacy forward in the first place?

His success is not the result of an Internet conspiracy
Don’t overestimate the effects of the Howard Stern show, much less Web sites like votefortheworst.com . Their effect on the results is likely negligible, because the producers make it difficult for that sort of effort to succeed.

The phone numbers for each contestant change every week. That means that someone who hates the show enough to want to see it fail has to watch it anyway on Tuesday nights in order to get the phone number to call. They then have to wait until 9 p.m. in their time zone to call in, and probably will have to keep trying for at least several minutes in order to get through. How many people who don’t even like the show are putting in that kind of effort each week?

Also keep in mind that the naysayer Web sites simply pick a new candidate once the old one is voted off. Sanjaya wasn’t the first to be targeted by the Web sites this season; that was Antonella Barba. And if Web sites can’t keep a contestant who has risqué pictures (some apparently real, some not) added to the Internet by the day, what are the odds that they can lead someone like Malakar to glory?

There’s always a worst-case option to vote for; when Sanjaya goes it will simply be Phil Stacey, or Haley Scarnato, or one of the other finalists. So the explanation for Sanjaya’s success isn’t the Internet. It’s more likely that:

In popularity contests, nice guys finish first
Love his singing or hate it, there’s no way Sanjaya comes across as anything but likeable. He’s a 17-year-old kid in an adult competition, hearing every week that he isn’t good enough to be there. How many teenagers could handle that strain without attacking the judges with a music stand?

Yet Malakar doesn’t react as though he’s bothered by the criticism. He knows the judges don’t like him, but he reacts with a smile and an occasional half-hearted barb to their comments. He has nothing but good cheer for everyone each week, and indeed tends to come across as one of the calmer, more self-assured competitors.

In addition, Sanjaya’s strategy has been more than a little brilliant. The Mohawk haircut he sported a couple of weeks ago got him a ton of extra attention, to the point where Ryan Seacrest sported a faux-hawk while hosting the next day’s show. Sure, he looked ridiculous. But he got people interested in him, to the point where some watch the show now to see what Sanjaya will do next. That’s not something many of his rivals can say.

Even when he dresses normally, he looks and acts like a nice kid that the big mean adults are picking on, and that’s always going to win some sympathy votes. That’s why the judges have gone easier on him in recent weeks, knowing that their vitriol is counterproductive. Alas, for the judges, there’s one more problem.

Sanjaya’s not a bad singer
Sanjaya Malakar has a melodious voice that legitimately has captured a fan base. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, and it’s not the best in the field, but nor does he sound like a karaoke king who got lost on his way to the bar and wound up onstage.

Governor of New Mexico arrives in North Korea

Pyongyang — Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor who has undertaken diplomatic missions to countries at odds with the United States, began a rare visit to isolated North Korea yesterday to recover remains of American servicemen killed in the Korean War.

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War funding won’t be cut, senator says

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Sunday that the Senate would not cut off funding for the Iraq war but would keep pressing President Bush for a settlement among Iraqi leaders to end the violence.

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Nothing great ever produced in isolation

The notion of cultural purity is a dead end, said famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who was born in Paris to Chinese parents and came to the United States as a child prodigy.

Ma’s internationally recruited Silk Road Ensemble involves instruments such as Indian sitars, Islamic ouds, and Chinese erhu, suona and pipa and has filled museums with works from Azerbaijan, Iran, Mongolia and Uzbekistan.

“I have this theory that I share with (Art Institute of Chicago president) Jim Cuno,” Ma told the Associated Press. “It’s that nothing great was ever produced in isolation.”

Ma says his study of history at Harvard University led him to realize that Eastern and Western cultures are not self-contained, but have mixed since at least the time of Alexander the Great.

“The guitar and the sitar are obviously related – even linguistically. The oud moves west from Persia to become the lute; it moves east to become the pipa. And a European hears an erhu and says it’s purely Chinese, a Chinese violin, but in Chinese the word `erhu’ means `two-stringed foreign instrument,”‘ Ma said.

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