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Johnson is chiller than a month of Sunday mornings, so it's not surprising that his debut album, Brushfire Fairytales, is doing a slow but steady sales burn in Southern California, Hawaii and other places where sand abounds. With a supersoft vocal style and influences ranging from Jimmy Buffett and Cat Stevens to Ben Harper and De La Soul, Johnson has perfected the admittedly picayune art of contemporary beach music. If the rest of the country hasn't yet heard of him, it is likely because he could barely muster the ambition to get a recording contract in the first...
...Israeli experts may be seeking to protect prevailing religious doctrines. Indeed, your article closes with the sentence "To keep on the right side of the rabbis, the Israeli archaeologists say they have already reburied the bones." I would add that their heads would also fit nicely into the surrounding sand. It is perhaps a small victory that we see the different faiths cooperating on at least one front--their absolute refusal to look at any information that would shed light on the days of Jesus. CARL BACHELLIER Waterdown...
...Seem" is the operative word in that sentence, of course, and many a visitor will tell you that Japan has mastered the art of not appearing to be worried by burying its collective head in the sand; last year alone, after all, the Nikkei index lost a quarter of its value. The maintenance of an upright, even upbeat public face is part of what has led generations of outsiders to talk of "inscrutability" (a nice word for insincerity) and to ask if smiles, in this proud and often aggressive country, are not just a way of keeping tears...
Southern African Let’s Go Writer David J. Bright ’02 cut short his research in late June after a car wreck in Namibia hospitalized him. Bright’s car hit sand and flipped while he was driving June 26 in the northwestern Namibian state of Khorixas. He suffered lacerations to the head, right arm and left hand in the accident. After the accident, Bright continued to work for Let’s Go at its Cambridge headquarters...
...died in 1975, but his sister, Merilyn Phillips Hodgson, has continued his work; she now heads the American Foundation for the Study of Man, which was the original sponsor of the current expedition. When the team arrived at Mahram Bilqis in 1998, most of the ruins were buried by sand drifts as deep as 26 ft. While none of the sanctuary's existing masonry dates to the Queen's time, much of its layout remains as she would have seen it. The main entrance is marked by the remains of a portico--eight limestone pillars, today half submerged...