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...cliche. Filmed on location, the camera brilliantly captures the town’s breathtaking white splendor, from the chalky stones that line the streets, to its snow-colored houses. The villagers manage to furnish this white canvas with vibrant color. Tsarouchas portrays the early 19th century world with engaging detail. The hay shed near the school grounds is overwhelmed by children at recess, who toss hay at each other every which way. Men and women show off beautiful costumes and masks at a village festival, where they dance to folk music. Women queue up outside church to congratulate a mother...
...Money Around Here" lecture series, so I decided this time to move from the philosophical to the practical. Using my computer and a program called Quicken, I printed out a blow-by-blow accounting of every nickel made and spent by the Camerons so far this year, sparing no detail...
...that they simply call him Denny. He shuns the Beltway talk-show-and-cocktail circuit and, at the end of the week, usually catches the first plane he can back to his modest Yorkville, Ill., home across from a cornfield on Route 34. When he became Speaker, his security detail told him he'd have to lock his doors at night...
...four Senators settled into their chairs, Bush laid out for them in precise detail his thoughts at the moment and his plans. Bush had two points he wanted to make. "We have to be resolute," he told them gravely. "If after the World Series America forgets our mission and our duty, we'll lose." Bush was just as firm on his second point. "It is really important not just to go after the terrorists, but the people who harbor them," he said. Important to go after not only the states that support them, but the so-called "non-profit organizations...
...four Senators settled into their chairs, Bush laid out for them in precise detail his thoughts at the moment and his plans. Bush had two points he wanted to make. "We have to be resolute," he told them gravely. "If after the World Series America forgets our mission and our duty, we'll lose." Bush was just as firm on his second point. "It is really important not just to go after the terrorists, but the people who harbor them," he said. Important to go after not only the states that support them, but the so-called "non-profit organizations...