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DIED. DENNIS WEAVER, 81, gangly cowpoke actor best known as the limping sidekick in Gunsmoke and as the titular Manhattan cowboy cop in the 1970s series McCloud; in Ridgway, Colo. The prolific Weaver had leading roles in 40 films, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and the 1971 highway thriller Duel, directed by an up-and-comer named Steven Spielberg. A committed environmentalist, Weaver spent the past 16 years living in an Earthship--a 10,000-sq.-ft. house made of tin cans and tires...
...what he has witnessed does. In mid-January, the man joined a remarkable protest against the local government's decision to seize communal farmland and lease it to a foreign investor. For several days, more than 1,000 villagers gathered near the disputed land, brandishing pitchforks and blocking a highway. But the brief exercise in free expression ended in tragedy. As dusk fell on Jan. 14, men armed with electric batons poured out of police vans and attacked the farmers. Villagers say a 13-year-old girl who tried to hide behind a woodpile was beaten to death, and they...
...clear our minds in the same way they did for those ascetics in the desert, in remembrance of Jesus’ meditations preceding his ministry. Therefore, one of the pillars of fasting has been destroyed: whereas giving up meat, milk, or food in general might have once been a highway to a better spiritual life in the starving Middle Ages, it is not so in the Information Age. Sorry, wrong path to the meaning of life...
...ordinary Americans, who charm him with their politeness, pragmatism and, on occasion, intelligence. He marvels at the patience of passengers queuing at an airport (the French would be murdering each other to get ahead). And when a stone-faced policeman collars Lévy for urinating alongside a busy highway, a hallowed Gallic custom, they end up in a lively discussion of De Tocqueville - who, Lévy notes, remains underappreciated among the French. They certainly know Lévy, whose bronzed, leonine visage is familiar from talk shows and gossip columns. "BHL," as he is known at home, exploded...
...Dolls and “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mixalot, the 39-year-old held her own to Dogman’s balletic jazz moves, eventually dancing up to him.To assess Berry’s dramatic talent, Blickstead and Dodd asked that she re-enact the highway scene from Monster’s Ball, the film which brought her an Oscar for best actress.Filling in for Billy Bob Thornton was Samuel Gale Rosen ’06, who co-wrote the script for this year’s production...