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...embargo on Cuba. DeLay aides say their boss worried that the White House was getting too much pressure from Israel's enemies in the Arab world, many of whom were demanding that Sharon lift his military siege of the occupied territories. "DeLay wanted to draw a line in the sand" and stake out the position of Republican conservatives in the crisis, said one of his staffers. "The White House needed to hear from the pro-Israel side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro-Israel Lobby Takes a Right Turn | 4/23/2002 | See Source »

...www.clearwater.co.nz , and Captain Doug Allen will cruise you over to where a boiling stream crosses a secret geo-thermally heated beach. While you soak in this natural hot tub at the lake's edge, he'll clean the fish, wrap it in tinfoil and bury it in the sand. An hour later, lunch is served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cuts | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...devil’s bargain, trading sun and sand for a college experience that was, until this week, relatively free of natural disasters. In making my college decision, I had carefully determined that I could deal with snow, sleet, and even Derek Jeter, but only if I was free from seismic events...

Author: By Christopher M. Loomis, | Title: Rocking Our World | 4/22/2002 | See Source »

...suspended naked man floats in the center of “Untitled (Blake Man)” with the falling dusk in the background; a faint orange glow on the sand and grass in the distance and reflected on the lake below serves as a reminder of the fading sun. A feather is wrapped with a cloth around his head and a miniature wing emerges from the small of his back—yet it seems all too insignificant an apparatus to allow such defiance of gravity, and the picture reminds us of Icarus’ tragic tale. His hand...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With a Grain of Salt | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

...another print shows an unclothed man, only his waist wrapped in a small cloth, lying lifelessly on a sparsely vegetated dune. He is surrounded by five wolves, but their relation to him seems maternal and loving rather than violent. The wolves and the intense white of the sand and sky suggest a snow-covered, winter quality. The barrenness of the nature and the bareness of the central figure establish an intensely somber and introspective solitude...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With a Grain of Salt | 4/19/2002 | See Source »

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