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...Jordan is God, then Phil Knight put him in heaven. By paying Jordan and other athletes millions to endorse his shoes, the chairman and CEO of Nike has helped turn them into household names ... [Knight] is the master of the mantra of the age ('Just Do It') and the proprietor of Nike's unmistakable swoosh, the icon that has turned the lowly sneaker into winged sandals ... Knight's stars are frontiersmen, exponents of an in-your-face brand of American optimism. And thus sports, as Knight has asserted, are 'the culture of the U.S.' By exporting the culture...
...bored with chain motels and overpriced bed-and-breakfasts, travelers are finding the idea of sleeping in a historical monument?once the guided tour is over?increasingly attractive. "People are tired of country hotels and fed up with chains. They want a bit more personality," says Roger Masterson, proprietor of accommodation agency Celtic Castles...
...arrived last May, black-faced baby lambs leaped about on multitoned green grass. Fluorescent yellow coconut-scented gorse growing next to electric colored bluebells signaled that, stormy weather aside, this was indeed spring. The next morning the skies cleared and the weather turned summery. Rachel Whyte, a co-proprietor of and the chef at the Glenmachrie Country Guest House, fed me some surprisingly mild-tasting smoked kippers, which, had it not been morning, would have paired well with a Bowmore 17year-old. Bowmore, on the north part of the island, is one of two remaining distilleries (Laphroaig, the other) still...
...chiller with a twisted yet strangely hypnotic villain. If that doesn't sound familiar enough, the bad guy is played by Michael Crawford, the original Phantom. So high are hopes for this show that long-runner Les Misérables was evicted from the 1,400-seat Palace Theatre (proprietor: Lloyd Webber) to make way for his new lady. But she's not quite the date fans might have hoped for. It's not just expectation that weighs on the new show - Crawford appears in a fat suit that renders him unrecognizable. Lloyd Webber insists that he wasn't trying...
...there," he says, "under the surface." Think of the film as a snow dome, its characters trapped under the glass of their emotion. There's Bianca's young brother, unable to empathize with others because of Asperger's syndrome. At the Siesta Inn, where Heidi takes refuge, the plucky proprietor harbors a deep shame. And there's Joe, whose intractable charm belies an existential crisis hinted at in his flirtations with an older gay landowner. When the dome breaks, things get messy...