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...wouldn't, of course, be The WB without a couple of new teen soaps. "The Mountain" follows the lives and loves of two feuding brothers running a family ski resort. It comes from McG, producer of "The O.C." and features a lot of those extreme sports that the beverage commercials tell us the young kids like nowadays. Unfortunately, because of the title, it ended up making me think of "The Valley," the fake-soap-within-a-soap on "The O.C." Finally, for all of you who ever watched a WB soap and wondered, "Gee, I wonder what these characters will...
...just a book. It was a cause. When Plainsong was published five years ago, its gentle but indelible tale of people getting through life on the high plains of Colorado was adopted with a passion by independent booksellers, the same ones who had pushed Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain up the best-seller list. They did the trick for Plainsong too, which eventually was also nominated for a National Book Award...
...these Games are taking place under the worst possible global psychology," says a senior organizing official, "these are blockbuster sales." As for Greeks themselves, in a recent poll 97% said they welcome the Olympics, despite all the difficulties. In the village of Marathon, Martha Sirakou, 43, a housewife whose mountain views have been obscured by a new stadium, is ready to greet the world anyway. "This is the price you have to pay," she explains, "for living where it all began...
...cover costs, Michalow secured a $320 grant from the Undergraduate Council and finagled rentals from MIT, the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth, as well as the Square’s own Eastern Mountain Sports, which he said gave the students around 80 percent off of gear rentals...
...various suspiciously similar looks over a 3-week period—after all, laundry is not immune from being pushed aside and ignored until the very last possible minute. It’s sometimes scary to think about what we would talk about were it not for the mountain of work that provides a pretty much constant bantering and bickering in dining halls every night. There’s a certain cachet in leaving a ridiculous amount of work until 3 a.m. the night before and indulging in the rituals of procrastination that go along with it: cleaning obsessively because...