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...Coomer is another sort of adventurer, a landsman who falls in love with a 60-year-old, 28-ft. wooden motor launch with a short mast and a steadying sail. Coomer buys the boat for a reasonable price, which is much like adopting, for a reasonable price, a child who must shortly be sent to Princeton. He names it Yonder (that's the easy part), learns to hoist anchor, percolate about the harbor, and dock again. Also to sail a bit, and what to do when the diesel fails: call for a tow, then call the diesel wizard, then deploy...
...carried the sign and the flag--at half-mast--with him as he marched outside the speech...
...more brutal crackdown in April 1989 when students gathered in the vast public square to demand democratic reforms. On Thursday, the square was surprisingly calm and accessible to the public, reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz: "At dusk on Thursday, Tiananmen looked serene. The national flag was at half-mast, but everything else looked business as usual. People walked on the square, some taking pictures of each other. Nearer the Monument to the People's Heroes, a crew of workers were dismantling a wooden structure used as decorations during the Chinese lunar new year festivities. At one corner, near...
...worse, since Democratic conventions are traditionally larger than Republican ones--a symbolic statement, no doubt, about the parties' respective beliefs about the proper size of government. Instead, what rankles is the neverending hoopla that has infected the marina, the harbor and the local news since the Republicans raised their mast at our convention center six weeks...
...children. "The school is the hub of the community," says parent Donita Rodarmel. Groups of teenagers cried last week on its grounds. Beyond them, turn-of-the-century gingerbread houses lined the streets. From many of these homes fly small flags. Some are American flags, now at half-mast. But some are happy, multi-hued pennants, bearing sunflowers, bluebirds or other motifs. They are nothing necessary; just a little extracurricular effort to make life more pleasant and varied...