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...Then it was up to a wide, boulder-strewn plateau-Goecha La. Peaks once distant now towered over us. Ahead was the primordial bulk of Kanchenjunga, glowing bluish at first, then a soft pink. A curtain of cloud swept across its face, and for a moment its peak was just visible before disappearing again...
...curtain rises on the twilight of the boyhood idols: in October 2001. Williams, "the Splendid Splinter," was on his deathbed in Florida. Pesky and DiMaggio, both in their 80s, embarked on a 1,300-mile car trip to visit him. Halberstam braids together the story of their road trip--that other great American pastime--with an account of their bittersweet seasons as Red Sox. Though they played as a foursome from 1942 to 1951, minus a few years for World War II, they never won a World Series, and in 1949 they lost the pennant to the New York Yankees...
...horns accompanied her movement, pulleys lifted up her golden cloak to hide Zoninsein as she snuck out the back curtain of the stage...
...Prague Spring that preceded the Soviet crackdown of '68. "This is a Cuban Spring," says Payá. "It will lead to the civil rights we're demanding." Can Payá do in Cuba what Vaclav Havel did in Czechoslovakia? Castro's rule has proved more durable than the Iron Curtain. But Payá is unique, says José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Instead of trying to overthrow Castro - as the U.S. has tried to do with its failed 41-year economic embargo - Payá "is openly challenging Castro's system by using the system itself...
Oussama Zahr ’04, the political chair of both the BGLTSA and Radcliffe Union of Students, sits to my left, wearing a blue polyester Lacoste dress that fits him like a curtain, a teeny bop wig and profoundly maroon lipstick. He says the politics around the event are “complicated...