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...better, he offsets such Tomorrowland aspects with lyrical images of Toshi's rural home, where women eat grilled eel while watching Audrey Hepburn and go looking for candleweed and ghost mushrooms. Toshi is as much a foreigner in Tokyo as any American might be, yet his two worlds are knit together with an exacting precision, with fishermen's nets "the color of dried persimmon," and an American's blanket having "the color of squid just pulled from the sea." Like Audrey Hepburn, perhaps, Brown's art is meticulous and precise beneath its haunting surface...
...spend 24 hours here each and every day. In fact, only a few people come close to a third of that number--and we pay most of them. But we still enjoy a close-knit atmosphere here, and anyone is welcome to join. It's been my pleasure to work with the scores of bright and diligent people who have passed through this building over the last four years...
...have seemed unfathomable. But because Sergei Grinkov was Prince Charming on and off the ice, his fatal heart attack at the age of 28 last week is agonizingly tragic, not just for the millions who have watched him and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva perform but especially for the close-knit skating community that had come to believe in the fairy tale of G and G. "We don't need to have this lesson," 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie said as the snow fell outside Lake Placid's Mirror Lake Inn two days after his friend's death. "This...
Their weekend parties were of a much more laid-back feel than those I've frequented at Harvard. In almost every suite, a group of students were gathered, sitting around and just hanging out. The residential college seemed to nurture more closely-knit relationships among its inhabitants, a closeness which manifested itself at The Game as well in the form of tailgating parties for each college. We can't even field a decent mascot for the whole school, yet they rallied around their college flags as something more than mere living quarters...
...segregated America, Alma Johnson was born into an extraordinary family, a tight-knit clan of teachers, principals, librarians and social workers, who helped form the core of Birmingham's black middle class. That community pushed the civil rights struggle as hard as any in America; the struggle was a fact of life, but it didn't define Alma. "We were going to school, falling in love, shopping for clothes, being teenagers," says her best friend from those days, Yvonne Hamilton. "Confronting white power wasn't high on our list." Whip smart, Alma graduated from high school at 16 and from...