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...With his friendly demeanor, Antonio has evidently become a popular fixture around the House. But because of his tentative English skills, Antonio, a native of Cape Verde, only exchanges a simple "good morning" with the harried students who flutter past...
...bucolic scene straight out of classic Disney: birdies flutter, bunnies nuzzle, a Bambi-esque deer gracefully grazes. And then--VROOOM!--the idyll is disrupted as a Reptar wagon rumbles through with some screaming toddlers aboard. Danger: Rugrats at work...
...many of us have occasionally tried the time honored flutter of the eyelashes and perhaps a tear or two when waved over by a cop for running a stop sign? Maybe you've played damsel in distress when faced with a flat tire or a particularly heavy suitcase that had to be lugged aways. Nothing drastic, no sleeping one's way to the top, just occasionally shedding mantle of "liberated woman" in order to make the day run a little smoother--strictly minor offenses. Was our ill-fated Monica aware of such powers? I guess yes. Is it naive...
...remember returning for a high school reunion during Thanksgiving break freshman year, and hearing similar questions flutter about in conversation. Had X or Y or Z changed? Were X or Y or Z different people from the ones we knew in high school? I suppose that people approach college with different sets of expectations or hopes of change, in much the same way people debate what kind of haircut to get. "Just a trim," or "take it all off?" There's a kind of self-discovery or self-destruction that comes from shaving your head--a decision that unfortunately...
...Japan's most ecumenical Buddhist centers, Zenkoji, a 40-structure complex set against the mountains. The cypress-roofed temple is the city's center of gravity, marked on all the highway signs. Zenkoji announces itself with the shock of pounding drums, the smell of burning incense, the flutter of white-paper prayers. Somewhere inside its main hall is what is said to be the first Buddha image ever to arrive in Japan, so precious that only a replica is displayed once every seven years...