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...movement becomes an unlikely form of extended stillness. I asked a Buddhist monk not long ago (a contemporary Buddhist monk, who takes 75 flights in a year) what he did to keep himself centered and at peace through all these transits. "I look out the window of the plane," he said. "Up there I don't have to do anything. I watch the clouds, the blue sky behind. Really, a plane can be a beautiful way of taking a retreat...
...think we know what OCD is, and most of the time we're all wrong. It's the nervous guy from Monk; it's cranky Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets. In the end, though, things usually work out for them. They even get the girl, who sees them as a kind of adorable emotional fixer-upper...
...would be a harsh judge who condemned the crew's showing. "They made a few mistakes on the racetrack-probably a few more than Alinghi," says Craig Monk, a member of the Kiwis' America's Cup-winning teams of 1995 and 2000. "Alinghi are so experienced and they just pounced. Our guys learned the hard way against the best team in the world...
...years ago, New Zealanders weren't impressed. But they may be starting to accept the realities of international sailing, where huge money tends to override national loyalties. "We've got 100 or so sailors on the scene and they're all in demand for America's Cup yachting," says Monk, who is confident New Zealand will mount an even stronger challenge in 2009. The key, he says, will be retaining a core of the current crew-maybe 12 of the 17. "Racing is all about combinations-about how people work together," Monk explains. "The Alinghi guys are very tight...
...beating heart of cultural Britain." Typical of the festival's eclectic offerings was last week's opening salvo entitled "Monkey: Journey to the West," a kind of circus-opera extravaganza, with a set designed by the pop group Gorillaz. Based upon a 16th century Chinese legend of a monk and a wondering monkey, it featured a riveting score by Damon Albarn, of Blur fame, plus a troupe of Chinese acrobats and martial artists...