Word: sagas
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...Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the animated fantasy that broke Japan's all-time box-office record a year ago and is now opening in North America. The People's Choice Award, voted by the festival's audience members, went to Niki Caro's Whale Rider, the New Zealand saga of a Maori girl who dreams of being her tribe's first female chief. It is an old-fashioned story smartly told, and enchantingly played by young Keisha Castle-Hughes...
Your article "They Had A Plan," on the efforts by the Clinton and Bush administrations to take the offensive against al-Qaeda [Special Report, Aug. 12], was a gripping saga that underlines a sad history of misguided political maneuvering and ineptness in preventing attacks. The failure to respond quickly allowed the terrorists to carry out acts that still reverberate in the lives of innocent citizens not only in the U.S. but all over the world. Alas! We are waiting for the day when concern for human suffering transcends political intrigue. JAYANTA GUHA Chicoutimi...
...summertime saga that gripped the nation, for its poignancy and the troubling mystery it posed. Just as the sun rose over the languid beaches in the crook of the elbow-shaped playland of Cape Cod, early-morning strollers were astonished by surprise visitors. Lying helplessly in shallows near the town of Dennis, Mass., like so many black boulders, were 55 grounded pilot whales. Although nine of the whales soon died or had to be put down (with lethal injections of sodium pentothal), rescuers managed to push 46 others...
Corporate Raiders In the latest twist in the Vivendi saga, French investigators launched a probe nto the indebted media company's accounts, seizing documents from its headquarters...
When you hear the word bicentennial, it brings to mind the year 1976, when Americans were painting everything red, white and blue. But there is an event just over the horizon that will bring fresh meaning to the word, a commemoration of a three-year saga that began in January 1803, when President Jefferson sent Congress a secret plan for exploring the "Western Ocean" and asked for $2,500 to finance the trip. The ensuing adventure of Lewis and Clark and their multicultural Corps of Discovery is such a defining American saga that we wanted to be second to none...