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...Crimson has converted just two of its last 38 power play opportunities, roughly a five percent success rate. The Brown game will be Harvard’s last of three post-exam break contests before Monday’s opening round of the Beanpot, held in the TD Banknorth Garden, against defending champion Boston University. The oddly timed exam break and subsequent light schedule leading into the tournament has traditionally hindered the Crimson, “but I don’t think we’ll have any trouble getting motivated,” Donato said...
...years ahead. Set for 2007 is Enchanted, a live-action-plus-animation hybrid la Roger Rabbit, about a storybook princess who enters the real world of modern Manhattan. Then there's Gnomeo & Juliet, a musical remake of Shakespeare's tragedy (it worked for West Side Story) featuring garden gnomes, with songs by executive producer Elton John. Disney is also developing a new Three Little Pigs, using Caldecott Award winner David Wiesner's postmodern take on the porkers. But animaniacs don't see most classic Disney characters getting a face-lift. As Edna says, "Never look back, darling. It distracts...
...just how far Coria has come. His grandmother's people still live in sloping clapboard shacks with dirt floors. Coria's home in Tuxpan is a porticoed five-bedroom residence in the center of town, and he drives a late-model Nissan Pathfinder. In the front of his vast garden are orchids and lilies he brought from the Hamptons. In the back are groves of guava, orange and avocado. But Coria's pursuit of success has taken a heavy toll. Being just about the only Mexican gardener in the Hamptons when he first arrived meant less competition, but it also...
...stopped in her tracks not by the wall clock frozen forever at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, or the array of appalling statistics (73,884 dead), but a single written testimonial which makes time cease for her: "From the window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much the same way as this. With carefully chosen images and words, the reader is transported across the tyranny of time, to face a century of terror...
...What striking photos you picked! What an amazing year! I don't remember being so affected by a series of magazine pictures since the tumultuous year of 1968. The image shown on the cover, of the New Orleans Garden District aflame, reminded me of a Currier & Ives lithograph. Alexander Wells Los Angeles...