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...days there was a fairly simple distinction to be made between the good guys, or "baby faces" in the carny lingo of wrestling, and bad guys, or "heels." Now no one is reliably good. The emphasis is all on rebellion and arrogance, black leather and shades. At the same time, the narratives in wrestling have become more complicated than Icelandic epics. The plots involve different factions of wrestlers in each organization who are trying to dominate the others, amid constant betrayals. "We're storytellers," says Vince McMahon, owner of the WWF. "You can't just throw wrestlers out there...
Some of the towns have rebelled. Rather than raise taxes while cutting school budgets, eliminating programs and laying off teachers, three of them--Dover, Plymouth and Searsburg--are refusing to send their taxes to Montpelier. At least three other towns are talking about joining the rebellion. In Manchester, volunteer firefighters are trying to persuade locals and other gold towns to join the revolt. And on both sides of the battle, people are worried that the fabric of Vermont is fraying for good. Says anti-Act 60 lobbyist Bob Stannard: "This is civil...
...discontinuous and "impersonal" Eliot of course provoked rebellion in some poets. John Berryman wrote, "Let's have narrative, and at least one dominant personality, and no fragmentation! In short, let us have something spectacularly NOT The Waste Land." But other younger poets disagreed. Charles Wright, this year's Pulitzer Prize poet, first read the Four Quartets (Eliot's World War II poem) in the Army-base library in Verona, Italy. "I loved the music; I loved the investigation of the past," he says. "The sound of it was so beautiful to me." The voice of the Quartets--meditative, grave, sorrowful...
Harvard anti-Jiang activists, joining the strong opposition to the Chinese president's visit around the country, presented a united front of rebellion to the Asian president's visit. Representatives from 11 Boston and Harvard organizations--including Harvard Students for a Free Tibet, the Harvard branch of Amnesty International and the Free Burma Group--met to draw out plans in late October...
Robinson has criticized the Chinese government for incidents of random detention and torture, and would like to visit Tibet in her upcoming trip to China in September. China invaded the territory in 1950 and has kept it under a tight grip since a 1959 rebellion...