Word: lande
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...waters may have killed more than 5,000 people and left 11,000 missing. As Vice President William Handel helicoptered over the deluged Ulua River valley, he saw three people trapped on a patch of high ground, waving frantically. The waters rose so fast that the chopper couldn't land--and Handel, just yards away, watched them drown, tossed like rag dolls in the current...
...Reclamation Act of 1902 was designed to open up Western land with federal water for small farmers and their families. The intent, as Theodore Roosevelt's first reclamation chief, F.H. Newell, made clear in 1905, was to help the little guy: "It is not to irrigate the lands which now belong to large corporations...but [to put] land...into the hands of the small owner, whereby the man with a family can get enough land to support that family...
...wedding in the shape of Le Corbusier's 1955 chapel in Ronchamp, France," she says. "It was the subject of my husband's thesis. My thesis was on the poetry of Matthew Arnold--lousy cake material." Fortunately for us, Luscombe veered away from poetry, and her native Australia, to land at TIME, where for three years she has employed her characteristic wit to write the popular People page. This week she takes on a new role as editor of TIME's Notebook section. Her predecessor, Jamie Malanowski, becomes a senior writer at our sister publication ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY...
...likes of the Astors and Rockefellers, and Joe Blow from Omaha may be a little intimidated. Steve Wynn and the other corporate boys are going to need some of the luck that everybody wishes for when they go to Las Vegas. They may have created a no-man's-land. SUZANNE W. MCCARTHY Winston-Salem...
...successful romantic comedy The Wedding Singer, it appeared that Adam Sandler had reached a new level of maturity and subtlety in his comedic acting. The former "Saturday Night Live" cast member seemed to put away his old repertoire of invisible penguins, fist-fights with Bob Barker and Lunch Lady Land in exchange for a sensitively humorous side, winning the "Best Kiss" with Drew Barrymore at the MTV Awards. This time, uniting with The Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci, the childish, rambunctiously funny Sandler has returned to the silver screen with his usual flair for the idiotic in The Waterboy...