Word: harbors
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...with a Spenserian sonnet, there's a uniformity to the open letters to Lucas. First, there's the issue of whether to address the director as "Mr. Lucas" or "George." Writers who choose informality seem more likely to harbor the delusion that Lucas will actually read their letters. Then the writer must begin by describing the first time he saw Star Wars ("I was the first kid on my block to see it," "I saw it in utero," etc.). Often the writer's origin story segues into a tragedy of childhood abuse, in which his mint collection of figurines...
...place," he says. When asked about Casino Drive, a horse from Japan who has emerged as a possible threat to Big Brown's Crown bid, Dutrow says he would tell his jockey "to find Yamamoto," referring to the Japanese admiral who conceived the Pearl Harbor attack, "and chew...
...many years, violence in the townships was understandable; it escapes no one that the hot spots of anti-immigrant brutality today were the furnaces of anti-apartheid rebellion two decades ago. More than one African government has pointed out that since South African rebels were then given safe harbor in neighboring countries, the millions of foreign Africans now in South Africa might reasonably expect the favor would be returned today...
...Today Australia exports some 10,000 tons, worth about $200 million - most of it frozen. Almost all is harvested, pulled from harbor pens onto waiting ships to be killed. Japanese buyers like Yoshio Koga of Nihon Marine grade the fish by checking flesh in the tail. Koga wants fish that are fat, red and oily, especially in the cherished toro, or belly meat. They can be on sale in Tokyo's giant Tsukiji fish market within three days...
...don’t know anyone else who bothered with “Laguna Beach” spin-off “Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County.” Even as I followed the lives and dramas of Newport’s privileged teens, I found myself wondering why. It’s not difficult to become caught up in reality shows, but their appeal proves subject to a paradox. They end up exposing the very fact we try to escape by watching in the first place: Most people’s lives are really boring...