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FULFILL A FANTASY Do something you've always wanted to: be a cowboy, drive a steam locomotive through the English countryside, go to the North Pole or rough it in the forest. Here...
...righteous crusader, the man who can do no wrong. Because when we take every punch Norton takes, we lose our sense of detachment. We lose that ironic distance--the distance that makes a movie like American Beauty such a compelling psychological portrait. There's no seeing the forest from the trees here because of Norton's intensity and ability to elicit endless empathy. We're his unconditional ally. But after being pummeled by Fight Club into bloody submission, we're just begging for mercy and an ending that will leave our senses --not our intellect--intact...
...trend. It works something like this. If one tree falls, it was a bad tree; if two trees fall, well, the grass needed more light anyway. But if a third tree topples, stop the presses. There must be some hideous new insect at work, threatening the entire forest. And that's a story. So it is with a trio of recently published books, and I'm not making these names up: Dow 36,000 by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, Dow 40,000 by David Elias and Dow 100,000 by Charles Kadlec (no relation). I'm thinking of writing...
...women's team was also in action in its first tournament of the season at Chapel Hill, N.C. in the UNC Invitational. Players were from most of the top 20 schools, including Wake Forest, William and Mary, Richmond, and Virginia Commonwealth. Freshman Nivedita Jerath, playing in her first intercollegiate tournament, finished second in the "B" flight, losing the final to Andrea Cowlter of William and Mary...
...grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee. The searching need for faith is written on the faces of the Chinese who pace each day, by the thousands, through the "Confucian forest" in Qufu. There, among the 600-year-old birch trees, are buried 77 generations of Confucius' descendants. Their graves, trashed and looted during the Cultural Revolution, have been rebuilt and remade in this decade. During the Cultural Revolution, in the 1960s, angry adolescent Red Guards dug up Confucius' grave...