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...tall, lean, bearded Lee, looks eerily like Osama bin Laden.) The enemy's power is daunting; its ruthlessness makes strong nations shiver. As he surveys the carnage of his realm, King Théoden mourns: "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?" And Aragorn replies, "Ride out to meet them." The Two Towers is a call, not for preemptive action, but for the resolve of disparate factions to find the will and cunning to defeat an insidious foe. It is also, and mainly, a thrilling work of film craft...
...Mostly, though, the Minsk Club is all about the rallies, where aficionados ride out to the countryside to roast pigs and swap stories. It was at a recent gathering that enthusiasts sacrificed a reviled Honda Dream to the god of Minsk. Of course, the Dream thrown into the pig-roast blaze was a miniature paper model used in Vietnamese funeral ceremonies, not a full-size scooter. Then again, with devotion like this, it's hard to put anything past these true believers...
...over James Meredith's admission in 1962, but it has since been the venue of the world's first human heart and lung transplants. The last Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg today houses the world's largest hydraulic research institute. In a state where black people were once forced to ride at the back of the bus, today they can be found testing NASA's space shuttle engines manufactured at Bay St. Louis. And some of the Navy's most sophisticated warships today are built just a couple of miles from where Senator Lott last week groveled for forgiveness...
...Midnight Ride...
Yamaguchi was a three-sport varsity athlete during his high school years at the boarding school Deerfield Academy. Now he is an officer of the Harvard Ballet Company, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company, a prolific choreographer and a guy who can ride a 10-foot unicycle. All thanks (except for the unicycle part), he says, to a wrestling coach in high school who encouraged him to dance. Though he approached dance at Harvard somewhat slowly, only performing in a handful of shows his first semester compared to his 10 shows on average every semester since...