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...coast, preferring the desert sands and open skies. But the towns offer the best introduction. Muscat and its port town Muttrah, wedged between the coast and the imposing Jebel Akhdar massif, evoke an old-world flavor. Portuguese-style whitewashed mansions?remnants of the colonial era?crowd the harbor front. Ancient forts crown the heights, securing dominance over the lucrative spice trade between Arabia, Africa and India. From here Oman controlled an empire that stretched from Zanzibar, now in modern-day Tanzania, to Baluchistan, now part of Pakistan...
...DIED. WALTER LORD, 84, narrative historian and author of popular historical accounts such as A Night to Remember (on the Titanic) and Day of Infamy (Pearl Harbor); in New York City. For A Night to Remember-which was made into a 1958 Hollywood movie-Lord tracked down 60 survivors of the disaster. He also served as a consultant for the 1998 blockbuster film Titanic. DIED. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, 60, paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure...
...games begin?5,760 minutes of the best football in the history of the world. And in the intensity of those goals and saves, tackles and passes, take a moment to admire not just the matches and the beauty of play, but also to feel the passion you harbor for your side and your nation. Savor that conviction that you come from the greatest country on earth and the most imaginative culture and the finest people and, my God, Allah be praised, dios mio, hontoni ne, isn't it apparent by how your people play the game? Remember that these...
...president of the United States - that he would have prevented the death of thousands if he'd been able. And yet the New York Post headline - and this is not a liberal, Bush-bashing paper we're talking about here - implies something out of "Oliver Stone's Pearl Harbor." To be fair, BUSH KNEW was only saying aloud what other news accounts merely muttered...
...blind"; they appear to think that what is in their mind is identical to what is in everyone else's mind and that how they feel is how everyone else feels. The notion that other people--parents, playmates, teachers--may take a different view of things, that they may harbor concealed motives or duplicitous thoughts, does not readily occur. "It took the longest time for Tommy to tell a lie," recalls Pam Barrett, and when he finally did, she inwardly cheered...