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...match. Damon's everyone's darling. Varitek is like a Cooperstown statue of "Catcher" and, now, "Captain" too. Arroyo, who starred as a hard-rock singer at Peter Gammons' annual charity fundraiser in Boston in January-Arroyo and his cornrows, and now he's got a CD of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots covers coming out in July. Theo himself was on guitar that night: a Yalie GM rock star...
...wrote an article a couple of years ago recounting my experiences as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly Second Session on Disarmament [June 1982]. Outside the U.S. building a group was sitting and marching in silence in memory of Hiroshima. Not Pearl Harbor but Hiroshima. No one seems to realize that without Pearl Harbor there wouldn't have been a Hiroshima." He goes back to the beginning...
...things really got started was in late '41, after Pearl Harbor. Actually for me, before that time. I was a student at the University of Denver. That's my hometown. And we were all signing up to join the Army Air Corps. Many of my classmates had run off to Canada. That was when you'd run off to Canada to get into a war, not stay out of one. In fact, my classmate Keith Johnson got shot down in the Battle of Britain. So we were all signing up. But a professor of mine said, 'Don't sign...
...gown in the back. Harry has won little public admiration with his protective and often garrulous ways, dropping a parental curtain between Ruth and the journalists trailing the celebrity scholar. "Her father . . . never closes his mouth," wrote a frustrated London Daily Express reporter, and "clings to his priceless pearl like a limpet." Meanwhile, in Huddersfield, Sylvia manages a job as a computer consultant and programmer while teaching Rebecca, who finished high school last month at eleven...
...past 20 years, Macau has been reinvented. One of the most relentless building programs of modern times has transformed this onetime Portuguese enclave from a backwater of crumbling villas, sleeping dogs and avuncular priests into a shiny pleasure zone that is the envy of southern China. From across the Pearl River estuary, Hong Kong's worldly denizens once snickered pityingly at their small-town, Macanese cousins. Now the latter are having the last laugh, unveiling bombastic showpiece after showpiece-from dazzling casinos and resorts to a new sports arena and (in the works) a lavish theme park complete with erupting...