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...since then, so has America. "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse," he observed, "by nature they will like the strong horse." Here he was indeed prophetic: the mistake was in not knowing which mount was which. In the month since he savored his triumph, the army of Taliban faithful has collapsed. If the scouts are right, he has had to flee to the deepest recess of a Tora Bora cave. His prediction of inflamed and inspired Muslims flocking to his cause was refuted by the quiet of the Arab streets and the murmur of clerics...
...ERIK WEIHENMAYER. There are no handicapped-parking zones on Mount Everest. Weihenmayer became the first sightless person to reach the 29,035-ft. (8,850-m) summit. A good athlete, he turned to climbing after losing his sight as a young teenager. The trek required him, with the help of his team, to negotiate ladder bridges over bottomless crevices and ascend a peak that kills even the most able mountaineers...
...Joanna Woods-Marsden poses a question that probably hasn't occurred to many people. We're used to seeing the human face photographed, drawn, scribbled and painted on movie and television screens, on billboards, in fact on a vast range of surfaces in our world, including the rock of Mount Rushmore. But suppose we weren't? Suppose that representations of real people were rarer than hens' teeth and that the only artificial faces and figures we had to look at were imaginary, mythical and sacred--Jesus and the saints, the gods of Olympus and the like? What if we never...
...Laden - and they want Saddam Hussein out of Iraq too, which is exactly the point at which public opinion starts to bump into that "unprecedented coalition" we've been hearing about. But how long can Bush keep those 86-percent approval ratings going without bringing home some heads to mount on the wall...
Unfortunately, this exhibit fails to fully address the issues of artistic permanence that the ill-fated Windshield project necessarily occasions. It is notoriously hard to mount an exhibition about architecture; the finished project usually cannot be exhibited, leaving only secondary sources—photographs, drawings or models—to convey an artistic sentiment. While the Windshield exhibition does a commendable job in giving a sense of the house through these sources, it never engages with the larger issues of creation and permanence that the exhibition itself raises...