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...spirit at the tip of Long Island. Or the clear desert air of Arizona reinforces the sense of being cleansed. Whatever the surroundings, the wake-up call likely comes at 6 a.m., and after a breakfast that could be served in a thimble and saucer, the hectic dawn-to- dusk pace rivals anything ever dreamed up by a drill sergeant. "By the end of the day," declares Diane Sepler, 46, a Miami interior designer who is a happy devotee of such regimens, "I'm like a noodle...
...sheepmen gathered at dusk outside the meeting hall in Mertzon, Texas. They wore cowboy hats (each hat distinctive, matching the weathered face) and belt buckles the size of a Roman's shield. They stood in dusty boots on the scrubby grass and drank strong black coffee out of plastic cups as the night came on. The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries. But shadows moved across the landscape...
...Dusk settles in on this warm June afternoon. Four F-15s from the Harvard Air Force streak across the sky, and as their vapor trails begin to fade, 10,000 rockets light up the sky, creating a vast crimson-and-yellow Ve-Ri-Tas shield and profile of a smiling Nathan M. Pusey. The 9000-member marching band strikes up a rousing final rendition of "Harvardiana...
Along with the dawn-to-dusk shoreline revelry, there is some serious rowing. Andy Sudduth, America's premier single sculler, will race. So will Tiff Wood and several past U.S. Olympic boats...
...sacred time." In sacred time, he thought, deeds done in historical time partake of the permanence of myth. In his dying hours on Mount McGregor, Grant labored to transport the Civil War, and himself, into sacred time. The war arrived there intact. Grant, however, has remained in a dusk somewhere between myth and Galena...