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...prostitutes have since moved elsewhere, and as it was for the Dutch, who knew it as Koningsplein (King's Square), the area today is a place of easy leisure, of bucolic clumps of crape myrtle and mahogany trees, whose center is the Monumen Nasional - founding father Sukarno's heroic white obelisk. From its observatory deck, you'll see the Kali Besar, Jakarta' big canal dug during the city's prosperous days as a tropical spice-trading port, running north. South is Menteng, the early 20th century planned garden neighborhood where local élite, like the late Suharto's clan, reside...
...space. Only 21 months after the Apollo 1 fire took the lives of three astronauts in 1967, NASA was flying again. The recovery time for the Challenger disaster was longer but still less than three years. Americans have suffered a lot of loss and hung a lot of crape since September of 2001, and war drums beating, they are likely to hang still more. Nations, like people, can sometimes grow too tired to be brave. At the same time, doing one thing--and doing it exceedingly well--can be a remarkable tonic. In the bright nights of the Apollo flights...
...been mutated by its corrupting power. Frodo, seduced and nearly spent by the Ring, is an uneasy kin to Gollum, who shows flashes of the sweet creature he once was. We see, as Frodo does, that Gollum's devious, cringing present could be the hobbit's future. Though the crape of impending war hangs over Towers, it is vivid with mortal melodrama and some potent new characters. Treebeard, an Ent (shepherd of the woods) reluctantly drawn into the conflict, has the stately, smiling gravity of Bernard Shaw. And the digitized Gollum is wonderfully complex. At first a whiny...
Spring has come to Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. The crape myrtles are in bloom, and the peach-toned brick buildings glow creamily in the afternoon sun. The cheery campus hardly recalls the school's old self-description as the "World's Most Unusual University." Not, at least, until one wanders by the bookstore and sees material on Catholicism under the heading "Cults." Or converses with an earnest young music major near an administrative building. "The Pope isn't necessarily the Antichrist," he explains, parsing a famous (and never retracted) statement by his school's founder...
...sect members who still live near Waco, and he leads the group in religious services every Saturday; some worshippers reportedly expect Koresh to be resurrected. Until that happens, Doyle is the unofficial supervisor of the Mount Carmel site, and last week also oversaw the planting of a grove of crape myrtle trees there. Nothing, though, has revived the memory of Waco like the horror that supplanted it last week. "We are not calling for people to do this kind of thing," says Doyle. Then he adds, "But it does help in a sense that Waco was not forgotten...