Word: deserter
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That question may be answered on Oscar Night, when his main competition for Best Actor will be genial, witty, accomplished Tom Hanks?the anti-Crowe. He carried the desert-island drama Cast Away alone on his sunburned shoulders. And he would win, if winning hadn't become such a habit for him (two Oscars and four nominations in seven years). Tom must be running out of mantel space. Will the Academy take a vacation from Hanks, and take a fling with the Wild Man from New Zealand...
...over California. You sit in a chair that, when the lights go down, moves up and forward to put you inside a curved IMAX screen. The effect is of flying in a magic-carpet hang glider, gazing down at rivers, farms, skiers, hot-air balloonists, the coast and the desert, San Francisco Bay and, of course, Disneyland. As you pass over an orange grove, the scent of the fruit tickles your nostrils. You fly over a golf course and--whack!--a ball sails toward and past you. In this vertiginous, multisensory California tour, state of the art meets...
...Last week the second President Bush took his first whack at the problem: 24 U.S. and British warplanes slammed five Iraqi radar and communications centers that had become a danger to the planes patrolling the no-fly zones imposed on Iraq after Operation Desert Storm. The military objectives were easy enough to accomplish. Pentagon officials believe the target sites to the south of Baghdad were nicely "degraded," and all planes returned safely to base...
...many pounds of water I could balance on my shoulders. Still, as an Australian and a pedant, I am heartily disappointed with the "reality" of the setting. What Jeff and his producers call the Outback is a lush, watery place in the rainy season, not the dry, red desert we associate with the word. And survive? The good people of Ogakor and Kucha are getting a whole lot of help. They may be on the peckish side, but as long as they're complaining about mushy rice you know they haven...
...multi-million-dollar plot of land in Allston, Harvard officials would be wise to look inward for ways to use their current space more effectively. They need look no farther than Hilles Library--the white elephant on Garden Street--for a virtual oasis of space in the square-footage desert that is the Cambridge real estate market...