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Roll over, Alexis de Tocqueville. The oft mentioned (but less frequently read) 19th century French scribe is being invoked by every dime-store scholar and public figure these days to bemoan the passing of what the Frenchman described as one of America's distinctive virtues: civic participation. "Americans of all ages, all conditions and all dispositions," he famously wrote, "constantly form associations." In France, Tocqueville observed, a social movement is instigated by the government, in England by the nobility, but in America by an association. Tocqueville and small d democrats from Ben Franklin (who started a volunteer fire brigade...
Emmerich, 40, the conductor of ID4's wild ride, is a can-do scholar of Hollywood moviemaking; he has built a reputation for efficient melodramas on modest budgets. (For all its locations and effects and the mandatory cast of thousands, ID4 reportedly cost a thrifty $71 million.) Emmerich first fell under the spell of science fiction as a boy watching U.S. films as well as local sci-fi TV shows in his native Germany. "For me," he says, "going on a science-fiction movie set is like visiting toyland. You see, my brother trashed all my toys when...
...Lorenzo shows clear evidence of class structure, according to Ann Cyphers, an Olmec scholar at Mexico's National Autonomous University, with more elaborate housing for the upper classes and simpler accommodations for the middle class and the poor. There were also, observes Cyphers, workshops for producing artifacts, and irrigation and drainage systems. "All these things show a society of great complexity," she says...
...Johnson's Skyline High School track coach, Joel Ezar, recalls, "He came to me in his junior year, and he looked more like a Rhodes scholar than a track athlete. He had horn-rimmed glasses and a briefcase and a tie. After he won a few races, I asked one of the kids, 'Who was that?' He said, 'That's Michael.' And I said, 'Michael who?' That's when I started to look closely at this nerdy kid." That sort of characterization does not sit particularly well with Johnson, who says, "Coach Ezar always makes too much of that nerd...
...faithful actually have God on their side? Are their prayers answered? Benson doesn't say. But a true scientist, insists Jeffrey Levin, cannot dismiss this possibility: "I can't directly study that, but as an honest scholar, I can't rule...