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...Land Far, Far Away ... James Poniewozik was absolutely right in saying that the Shrek movies are really for him and not the kids [May 28]. Tex Avery's cartoons (starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig) and many other cartoons of the 1930s and '40s include jokes that kids don't have the cultural experience to understand. Shrek is the same. Do kids still need wonder and magic? Of course they do. Do they need classic stories turned into happily-ever-after tripe that doesn't even resemble the original? Absolutely not. Poniewozik only alluded to the fact that...
...Impasse? I was interested to read "The Dying of the Light," about how Mansour went from being Baghdad's glitziest neighborhood to one of its most dangerous [May 28]. It seems impossible for any side to win the war in Iraq. If the fighting were about land or money, maybe it would be easier for the U.N. or powerful nations to intervene and negotiate a settlement. But this war is about dominance and will. The Western countries involved have the technology and firepower, while the jihadists have the manpower and a willingness to die. I don't see how President...
Chambers Bay is not your typical golf course--condos don't line the fairways, carts are forbidden--but in other ways it exemplifies many of the trends in golf architecture: green maintenance practices, natural designs that follow the land and clever reuse of land. This stunning $20 million public course was an underproductive mine...
...costs, they're using hardier grasses like fescue in the Pacific Northwest and paspalum in Hawaii, Florida and Majorca. These drought- tolerant varieties don't require as much water for irrigation. And designers are working with what the land has to offer--the days of creating a pine forest out of a desert, à la Steven Wynn in Las Vegas, are numbered. "I take advantage of Mother Nature," says designer John Robinson. "At Blue Heron in Medina [Ohio], I had ravine after ravine, so I positioned the course to hit over those, like a steeplechase...
...Marine Craig Thomas, above, went to Washington in 1989 after he won a special election to replace then U.S. Representative Dick Cheney, whom President George H.W. Bush had appointed Defense Secretary. A Senator since 1994, Thomas earned a reputation as a sensible, effective advocate on issues from public-land protection to the domestic production of energy and minerals. Thomas, who avoided Beltway infighting, watched himself win a third term last year from a hospital bed. After he was re-elected, he announced that he had leukemia...