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Coleridge moved "caves of ice" to Xanadu from the Kashmir region of northern India, where they had been described in 1795 by the Rev. Thomas Maurice in The History of Hindostan. Alexander and a friend, forbidden to travel there because of political turmoil, attached themselves to a mob of religious pilgrims and pressed on regardless. The journey was not entirely spiritual; an overcrowded campsite was fouled with human dung. This does not prevent Alexander from creating a beautiful scene. "I saw, on drawing back the tent flaps," she writes, "snowdrifts gleaming on the towering black peaks and, a long...
...honest, not being valedictorian hasn't mattered in my life. Which is why, perhaps, I read the story of Paul Siemens '98 with such disbelief. Paul, in case you don't know, is suing his school district for unfairness. Not because he was forbidden from taking an important class, not because he was denied help because of his race, but because he thinks their system of determining valedictorians is unfair...
Under the proposed resolution, elected city officials convicted of a felony would be forbidden to finish their terms in office...
...script but when Tian diverged from it, refused to let him edit his film; it languished for a year and was completed abroad by others working from the director's screenplay and notes. The film was banned in China, and last month Tian and six other prominent directors were forbidden to make films in their homeland...
...World Cup . . . Defending champ Germany has already taken such advice to heart, banning wives and girlfriends from the team's hotel in Chicago; but in Detroit, Swiss team coach Roy Hodgson lightened up and lifted a sex ban on his players . . . Germany's national football team was also forbidden by its doctors to use their U.S. hotel swimming pool lest Chicago's ozone harm their lungs . . . Norway's state television has begged more than 2,000 workers to suspend a strike -- just for a day -- to let soccer-mad fans watch the World Cup Finals...