Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While we work our magic, the ropes guide the line back-and-forth. I begin to fantasize that our ordeal will culminate in a ride on Space Mountain, but I am sorely disappointed. Instead, our reward for successfully navigating the rat maze and completing our applications is a good old-fashioned strip search. At the very front of the line, a team of security guards is closely inspecting each auditioner. Apparently MTV is concerned that someone may try to beat some humility into Carson Daly's smug noggin...
...warrant for his arrest. So, when his parents and friends helped him at first, they weren't breaking the law. But after the warrant was issued, the cops hunted him with increasing fervor. One time the entire robbery detail (which had been reconstituted) rode around the park on mountain bikes in the rain, trying in vain to find...
...arresting grandeur, the sound of a coyote's distant howl, or a boy's delight in rivers and horses. With its old-fashioned words like surcease and travail and its unembarrassed talk of caring, Guterson's story becomes a kind of affirmation of open-hearted faith. Ben sees a mountain goat running, and he "felt poised on the cusp of the world, as close to God as he might ever get, with no place higher but heaven itself...
...over in yelping heaps of skis and poles. Kearns, an elfin woman with twinkly eyes, smiles at the antics and pushes ahead into the thickening snow blurring the Adirondack wilderness ahead. She's leading her students on an overnight field trip to discover the beauty and history of this mountain range in upstate New York. Kearns is convinced that getting out into nature, "fondling nature," she calls it, will someday enable these kids to be better people...
...miles away, at the main staging area in Albania, Jackie, 16, and her brother, 14, wait to go back down the mountain. Dressed in army pants, a black jacket and a beret, she looks more like a cheerleader than a soldier. With a quick smile and long brown hair that she constantly flips over her shoulder, she says she was among the refugees who came through Kukes three weeks ago and, against her parents' wishes, joined the K.L.A. She had two weeks of training, and is now fighting at the front. "I fired a lot of rounds today. Of course...