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...under a white flag at a place called Wounded Knee. To mark the anniversary, descendants of the survivors came on foot and on horseback, some from hundreds of miles across the plains. They circled the chain-link fence around the grave site, saying their prayers in silence and burning sage for purification. South Dakota Governor George Mickelson offered words of sorrow and apology, the culmination of a "Year of Reconciliation" between whites and Indians in South Dakota. The journey to the grave site, he said, "has been a prayer and a sacrifice, a wiping away of tears...
...whaling town of New Bedford, Mass.; studied in New York City; spent most of his working life there and died in 1917. As far as is known, he painted fewer than 200 works. Yet a succession of American artists has looked up to him as a sage, a holy man: the native prophet who linked tradition to modernism...
...best memories go back to the Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme days, when we were beginning to make albums more carefully, that we really liked," Garfunkel says of those post-Silence days. "When we sat back and listened to the playback of that record, it was a high point in my career." The highest came in 1970 with the release of Bridge over Troubled Water, which remains in the top 50 best-selling albums of all time. It was also the last album Simon and Garfunkel would make together...
...sage's question could apply equally well to the global coalition that the U.S. has put together to oppose Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. And the answer is the same: perfection cannot be expected, but its absence is an acceptable price to pay for the strength that comes from the support of a wildly diverse alliance...
...must admit that I do not deserve to be considered a ((wine)) connoisseur," writes Richard Nixon in Forbes FYI, a new supplement to the business magazine. The former President's article provides evidence that his modesty is well placed. The Sage of Saddle River proffers advice that wine lovers will recognize as misleading or downright wrong. Never chill a red wine, he decrees. In fact, most Beaujolais and some other fruity reds benefit from cool temperatures. Nixon says California's consistent climate renders vintage years virtually irrelevant as a guide to quality, a claim that would be disputed...