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...include misgivings," he says, "then I'm holding something back, and that would be a lie." Yet beneath the wordplay is genuine emotion, as at the wrenching yet warmly comic climax, when Eggers discovers the box of his mother's remains on a visit home and drives out to scatter them on Lake Michigan. "My eyes blur. I shake. I want to put the box somewhere else--in the trunk maybe--but know that I can't...She would f____ing kill...
...just as this millennium is a Western conceit, the story of the past thousand years is largely the story of the tourism of Western peoples over the span of the earth, to encroach on and economically dominate the rest of the world. If fewer representatives of the wealthiest peoples scatter to the shrines and monuments of the cultures they superseded to chant and toast one another, one doubts the ghost of Montezuma will take offense...
...relatives who make the special effort to convene in one place for one day, from grandparents who pull our cheeks to aunts who can't stop chattering. To little cousins who gleefully scatter those leaves we just raked. Thank...
...great things about a 'scatter band' is that it is such a contrast to what people expect from Harvard," says Morgan A. Goulet...
...eases his Dodge Ram along his country's porous border with the U.S. Soon his headlights pick out four scraggly youths preparing to scale the 12-ft.-high steel fence that separates the town of Agua Prieta from Douglas, Ariz. As he slows the pickup, the teenagers scatter like rabbits toward the sagebrush. "Wait! Don't run! We're not here to arrest you," yells Macias. "We want to help you. The problem is on the other side...