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...build a metaphor. Such is the case in “For a Better World,” based on the artist’s own poem, which locates womanhood somewhere between the Christian concept of Eve, and the Andean ideal of a woman whose spirit comes from the mountain...
...Walt’s favorite characteristics of curiosity, courage, constancy and confidence. I survived my first “camping” experience in the oddly unnatural nature of Fort Wilderness at 12 and overcame my fear of roller coasters by finally caving into peer pressure and braving Thunder Mountain Railroad. For four years my high school got away with sending my class on “educational” field trips to Epcot. During my senior year, our competitive cheerleading squad placed ninth in the nation at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex. And after years...
...dressing in your best Pleather and engaging in drunken revelry at Pleasure Island, a nighttime oasis of clubs and bars, or at the Final Club scene. And no theme park or university is complete without long lines. After hours of waiting in line for thrills at Splash Mountain or dinner at Annenberg, you are bound to come out only a few moments later somewhat disappointed, somewhat hungry and probably shrieking...
...possibly curable - or are the banks on the point of complete implosion? The largest banks expect to collectively lose $17 billion this fiscal year. The latest official stat on irrecoverable loans is $135 billion, though nobody has ever trusted that figure: the only sure thing was that the mountain of bad loans from the bubble period, troubling enough at the time, has grown exponentially with bankruptcies and the decline in the stock market. Kenneth Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, describes "Himalayas of debt crashing down on the economy." In January, Yoichi Masuzoe, a parliament member from...
...courageous Tibetan resistance leader who led 600 men in a guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role from her father, a former chieftain, Pachen was captured and imprisoned for 21 years after attempting in 1960 to flee to India. Her autobiography, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun came out in 2000. RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. Of WIM DUISENBERG, 66, Dutch first president of the European Central Bank, who will step down in July 2003, three years before the end of his term; in Maastricht. On his appointment, the French government claimed...