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...northern city feels a decidedly masculine place. Its colors are brown and black, its aesthetic one of straw and stone. On its southern edge is Matsushiro, a castle town of old samurai houses and the remains of a military academy; to the north is Togakushi, a sacred, templed mountain favored by ascetics and home to a ninja museum...
Bloodied snow led to purple rage in Italy last week after an EA-6B U.S. Marine warplane threading through a mountain valley at treetop level severed a ski resort's lift cable, sending 20 people to their death. "The skies are not for the most powerful or for the most aggressive," the Rev. Lorenzo Casarotti told mourners in the Dolomite mountain village of CAVALESE. "They are for everyone." The Pentagon will pay each family $5,000 for burial costs, and the crew could face a court-martial. Residents and Italian officials said that earlier complaints about low-flying military planes...
Among those featured at the Cultural Show Saturday night will be the Mountain Brothers, an Asian-American hiphop group that has recently signed with Columbia Records for an album this spring, Chung said...
...halfpipe confrontation will take place in a semicylindrical course (394 ft. long and 12 ft. deep) in which riders perform like skateboarders, executing flips and rotations before a panel of judges. The giant slalom in Nagano will involve threading through gates along a 3,100-ft. run down the mountain...
Sheriff Jules Clement is the man in charge of keeping the town's cooped-up energies contained. A local boy who's seen the city lights during a stint in New York as a social worker, he'd rather be standing in a mountain trout stream than making his daily rounds, which are mostly devoted to tire slashings, acts of birdbath vandalism and hunting accidents. As an example of what Harrison calls "that final anomaly, a liberal officer of the law," Clement would just as soon not crack most cases, aware that the bulk of them boil down to ignorance...