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...deep affection others felt for him was illustrated at his beautiful funeral on Monday, Nov. 26. This service for Denny, held at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in New York, was matched in grandeur—but unequalled in passion—perhaps only by the grandest of state funerals. Nearly a thousand people gathered there to manifest their high regard and sincere affection for Denny...
...tortuous and subjective process-and it's precisely what federal legislators now need to go through, on the grandest of all possible scales, as they meet to hammer out the differences between the education bills recently passed by the House and Senate. While the Bush administration is already congratulating itself for pushing through a "monumental achievement with bipartisan support," the real work has yet to be done. All that's guaranteed right now is that every child in America will be tested every year in grades 3 through 8 in math and reading. But such tests will mean nothing (except...
...Cheung did smart star turns as the lovers of two beguiling specters in A Chinese Ghost Story and Rouge, and he would later earn international acclaim in Chen Kaige's Concubine?still his fullest, grandest performance. But it was Wong Kar-wai who illuminated the inner Leslie on the big screen. Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored...
...grandest of the three bedrooms, the Victorian Room, with its 12-ft. ceilings, was once the rear parlor. A king-size four-poster mahogany bed sits in front of a working marble fireplace; a bay window overlooks a landscaped garden. All the rooms have lush Oriental rugs, original details and antique furnishings...
nothing if not that the Red Sox were never meant to prevail on baseball's grandest stage. Even our most admired hero and thought-to-be savior, ace Pedro Martinez, admitted as much when, following the Sox' devastating 2-1 loss to the Indians last Wednesday, he acknowledged, "We were not meant to win that game...