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...dawn the next morning, June 29, their luggage was loaded into a blue Mercedes, and they headed north, driving 14 hrs. through Tuscany, Milan and the Austrian Alps to Munich. Frankel had hoped an associate there would help him get at his money. After two days, though, Frankel began to sense a trap, and at midnight they checked out of the Astron Hotel...
...still wouldn't be a total waste of energy. It is to sex, after all, that we owe most of the things we consider aesthetically appealing in nature. If it were not for sex, there would be no blossoms and no birdsong. A flower-filled meadow resounding with the dawn chorus of songbirds is actually a scene of frenzied sexual competition. Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at University College London, has pointed out that everything extravagant about human life, from poetry to fast cars, is rooted in sexual one-upmanship...
...dawn of Campaign 2000 it was the Republicans who were supposed to be host to a fight for the heart and soul of their party; and yet, as another candidate folded her bumper stickers last week, the G.O.P. has all but crowned a front runner who never misses a chance to be seen talking about compassion in a colorful sea of children. And even as George W. Bush drives in his big-tent poles all over the middle ground, it is Al Gore who finds himself locked in what looks like a real philosophical battle over the future...
Every now and then a movie appears on the horizon, sending streaks of a false dawn through the sky long before the actual appearance of the film; Princess Mononoke is that sort of movie. It was the highest grossing film in Japan when it was released in 1997 (to be replaced, tragically, by Titanic, and bootleg copies have been circulating though North America for years.) The big screen debut in America has been completely unlike that of any other foreign animated film; touting the voices of stars like Gilian Anderson, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Billy...
...white-out conditions, hail and high winds. They summited six hours later. Gore, who hasn't told that story publicly, has been closing his speeches with a generic bit about standing on the summit--"You can see a long way, but you can't see every day that will dawn." But he chose the wrong metaphor. He'd better hope the symbol of his campaign turns out to be that death-defying climb...