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...making use of an alternative energy that's God-given.' STEPHEN SCOTT, senior fellow at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania, on the decision by some Amish communities to begin using solar energy...
...head coach Tim Murphy says. “They should be among the better players in the league at their position as soon as they hit the ground running.” Combining for 10 sacks and 18 tackles for loss in the 2006 campaign, the Elizabethtown, N.C. natives bring a lot to the Crimson front line. Desmond, the elder of the two, stands at 6’5”, 280 pounds, while Brenton, at 6’3”, 235 pounds, is hardly fit to bear the title “little brother...
...finally tracked down Donald Kraybill, a professor in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Kraybill, to my chagrin, told me there is in fact a lot of stuff going on with the Amish. Far more, I had to admit, than is going on with me. Amish churches, he said, will spend the next year wrestling over whether to allow members to own cell phones. This seemed odd to me, since Amish beliefs forbid members to drive a car, go to school past eighth grade or have phones in their homes. But someone found a loophole...
...from my life,’” Crowe says in a phone interview. This biographical approach, he clarifies, is “out of wanting to share something that is meaning[ful]…never to self-glorify.” “Elizabethtown,” Crowe’s latest film, satisfies that craving for the intensely personal that remains relatable (see review on page B6). It’s a hearty helping of Southern intimacy, inspired by Crowe’s own cathartic return to Kentucky after his father’s funeral...
ElizabethtownDirected by Cameron CroweParamount Pictures3.5 Stars“I teach [my kid] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate...