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Cooper, who answered all five questions correctly, said the questions in both rounds ranged in difficulty level from "easy to quite hard." Recalling the difficulty level of some questions, Cooper said one question asked him to order the birth dates of four female athletes...
...Though Virginian by birth, Wolfe has made Manhattan his home for decades, and while he still uses his drawl for dramatic effect, it usually lies dormant. On the one hand, Wolfe casts an ironic eye on modern culture and preaches a return to more brutal instincts. On the other, he lives the life of a foppish Manhattan novelist. Like Pappy Mason, Wolfe says his soul has been wrankled by challenges to his manliness. Wolfe's example: once in New York, during a snowstorm, another man took a cab from him and he had to wait a long time for another...
...should allow each parent's savings to be used in any participating state, and use incentives to encourage states that do not have the programs to create them," Gore said in May 1999. "Under this plan, if you make small, regular contributions to the program after your child's birth, you'll be able to afford college tuition--with protection from taxes, inflation, and rising college costs...
...Saturday, with some help from the Israeli police, John Paul defied rumors of trouble at Nazareth's Church of the Annunciation. It was in this place that the Angel Gabriel is believed to have told Mary she would give birth to the Messiah; accordingly, a legend on the altar reads HERE THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH. But it was also here last year that Muslim riots broke out when Christians objected to a mosque going up nearby. No disturbances rent the peace during the Pope's two-hour Mass, however, perhaps because a Muslim prayer leader preached against disturbances after...
...with a number of stories on its mind. One is what Walcott modestly calls his "inexact and blurred biography" of the painter Pissarro, a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors were driven out of Portugal, who chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan museum, of an "epiphanic detail," a "slash of pink on the inner thigh/of a white hound" in a painting by Paolo Veronese...