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This restlessness saves Hardy the poet from his obsessions -- you might even say his monomania. His singular stanzaic shapes, his deliberately bumpy meters, his weird triple rhymes (frowardly/untowardly) all enliven and diversify his subject matter, which otherwise would be claustrophobically narrow. The number of his poems that concern romantic triangles, with, typically, one of the three parties represented by a ghost, must surely run into the hundreds...
...boot camp since June -- six months longer than the men. Coach Worthington is hoping that the 10-hour days, which begin with one-armed pushups and a 105-min. weight-lifting and aerobic regime and continue with intensive tacking and jibing duels on Koch's two 1992 boats, will narrow the gap in strength and skill. "Men don't listen to coaches because their egos get in the way," he says. "But these women are so eager to learn. I get choked up thinking about how far they've come and how determined they...
That seemingly narrow task, however, has expanded into a full-scale investigation that has gone beyond Espy to include Tyson Foods and its relationship with Bill Clinton as Arkansas Governor. Many close ties are already known: Tyson executives helped finance Clinton's campaigns, and James Blair, one of the firm's lawyers, guided Hillary Rodham Clinton's successful commodities trades. Smaltz, 57, a former prosecutor from Los Angeles who was expected to finish the current probe within six months, says he has collected such a large battery of allegations that he may not finish the task before...
...major headache could be winter weather. Narrow mountain roads are choked with snow. Foul weather would blind many of NATO's frontline aircraft, taking away NATO's technological superiority. Everything will be complicated by the cold. Troops will have to be clad in "overwhites" for camouflage and will need more food, more unfrozen water, more heating fuel. Miles of white netting will be required to shroud olive-drab military gear. Snow fouls weapons, and cold air produces large clouds of condensation when the weapons are fired, making it easy to pinpoint the shooter. Helicopter rotor blades whip up mini- blizzards...
...Dead for sure," one insider put it. The dinosaur everyone loves to hate was a "one-year phenom" that ran headlong into extinction this season, thanks to overlicensing (the Purple One's image appeared on every product you can think of), a very narrow demographic base and "parental revolt...