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...moviemakers therefore create a character named Mann (Ving Rhames), who drifts into town on horseback just as the tragedy is beginning to unfold. In essence, he's the mysterious stranger of a thousand westerns, eager to avoid conflict but miraculously adept at the killing arts when he is finally obliged to employ them. Ultimately he and John Wright (Jon Voight), the white storekeeper in the town and a reality-based character, make common, inspiring cause to rescue Rosewood's surviving women and children from the swamp where they have taken refuge from the blood-crazed posse searching for them. There...
Competitors in adventure racing spend from three to ten days in the wilderness, competing in events including glacier climbing, whitewater rafting and horseback riding...
...purpose of Inauguration Day is to cover over that sort of animus, and there is no better city in which to do that than Washington. Packed like a bright graveyard with slabs of marble and men on horseback, Washington is a ceremony waiting to happen. It is also the ideal urban setting for the great stone wall. One reason the movie of All the President's Men was so scary was that it captured the crumminess behind the wall, not unlike the Watergate burglary itself. Think of that splendid moment when a TV screen showed Nixon being sworn...
...likened to a stage mother, but she has clearly instilled in her daughter a love of the game that Capriati never had. At the same time, she has given her daughter a life outside tennis. "I try to go to Broadway, some musicals," says Hingis. "I always do sports: horseback riding, soccer, basketball, swimming." She is self-possessed enough to conduct interviews in English, Czech and German, and she knows the right pose to strike, whether she's upset with a call or celebrating a victory. And there will be many victories to come. Asked if someday people might associate...
Like most campers, the Lakota teens swim and toast s'mores over the campfire. But these kids, most of them recruited from troubled reservation towns, are trying to break a grim cycle of alcoholism and despair by living as their forebears did: sleeping in teepees, traveling on horseback and learning their once forbidden language and ceremonies from tribal elders. "This camp is more than a camp," says Gregg Bourland, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. "In a way it is the rebirth of the Great Sioux Nation...