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Full of big-hearted, crowd-pleasing excitement, the solid, well-crafted "Independence Day" has barrelled onto the summer movie scene. The movie's real-life cast and gleeful, what-if approach toward alien invasions work wonderfully, in pleasant contrast with the string of choreographed stunts and signature one-liners that pass for action movies these days...
...wake us in the morning, and it seems to follow us until sweet slumber shields us from the sounds of the outside world. Shutting up for a minute or two would be an auditory oasis: a treat for the mind, body and soul alike. Imagine how much more pleasant it would be if we could drive the Mass. Pike in total silence. Stopping for self-reflection or prayer provides a pause to consider the humanity that is so often stripped from us by all-nighters, 80-hour work weeks, timecards and exams after winter break. Even what little time...
...together, and Kossuth achieved legal integration without the horrible spasms that wrenched most of the South. It was always a point of pride to Linda Lambert, the wife of Kossuth's mayor, that 109 years ago her ancestors donated the land on which black ex-sharecroppers built the Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church--a big, beautiful edifice that housed a $10,000 baby-grand piano, the congregation's pride...
Last Monday night, however, the Lamberts' phone rang: Mount Pleasant was ablaze. Lambert's husband Steve, who is not only the mayor but also chief of the Kossuth volunteer fire department, rushed to the local fire barn and discovered to his astonishment that the engines were already gone, to another black church, Central Grove Missionary Baptist, which was burning a few miles away. Finally, the county fire department arrived, but by then, Mount Pleasant was lost. As the roof caved in and the steeple crashed to the ground, Linda Lambert glanced over at Sheriff's Deputy Billy Dilworth...
...Atlanta's status as a suburban, almost rural city means that it does not have as many cultural amenities as one might expect, it makes up for that with natural resources. Indeed, the Interstate City is an eminently comfortable place in which to live, and houses on pleasant, leafy streets can be found, at relatively low prices, within a 10-minute drive of downtown. Hills, lakes and mountains are only 25 minutes away, and, at a phone booth, a flyer advertising for a roommate states matter-of-factly, WANTED: MALE TO SHARE RUSTIC 75-ACRE FARM W/STABLE AND LAKES...