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...predecessor). It claimed that American environmental law prohibiting the import of tuna from countries that killed too many dolphins violated international trade rules. And Mexico won. All those hours environmentalists had spent trudging through the corridors of Capitol Hill on behalf of dolphins had been undermined, overnight, by a far-off tribunal...
...Tojo had to be defeated; there was no doubt about it. The U.S. was the "home front"; the "war effort" was priority No. 1; and complaints were met with a standard reply: "Don't you know there's a war on?" The country felt extraordinarily close to its far-off troops--sons, nephews, the kids who lived down the street. They were always "our boys." The unity of belief, purpose and effort felt surprisingly good...
...middle-aged Frenchman, his country's most successful director, has not made a "French" movie in 20 years. Instead, he roams the world, immersing himself in far-off cultures and eras, testing his curiosity, artistry, endurance. The films that emerge from his researches are quests (Quest for Fire, The Bear, The Name of the Rose); their creation is always an adventure and often dangerous. "The rougher the situation," says Brad Pitt, who stars in the director's latest epic, "the happier he is. The wind's blowing at 90 m.p.h., there's dust in your eyes, bombs going...
Having to make several visits to far-off schools can be expensive. As a matter of fact, many students say the entire applications process can cost thousands of dollars...
...things going on that people here know about, I dare say care about, but don't have the energy to talk about. We absorb summer stillness from the air directly into ourselves and manage to address what most people consider "reality" only in the future tense, imagining that hazy far-off time when our mind vacations are a memory...