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...wily 49ers receiver could lose his own shadow if the game depended on it. He's got timing too. His 127th touchdown, the one that vaulted him past Jim Brown into first place on the N.F.L.'s all-time leading touchdown list, came on home turf while 70,000 fans in San Francisco watched and another 30 million or so Monday Night Football viewers tuned in from home...
Foster then cites Shadowlands, the story of author C.S. Lewis' marriage to a dying Joy Davidmen, and says, "All the good things in this life are just a shadow of the real world with...
...perhaps the most ironic answer given by members of both Hillel and BSA is that it was Jeffries himself who improved relations between the two groups. The shadow of the 1992 incident and its aftermath has hung over Blacks and Jews for two years, and no one wanted to see it repeated with a different controversial speaker...
...first meeting was funny. He was so young and so big. I thought, 'This big, big baby could be my son."' Bondy learned that Terfel "is not a guy who is pretentious and insists on his own way." On Terfel's wish list are parts like Falstaff, Nick Shadow in The Rake's Progress and Escamillo in Carmen. His first Wagner, probably at the Met, will be the comparatively light role of Wolfram in Tannhauser, with its lyrical ode to the evening star -- cat's cream to a baritone with Terfel's plush tone...
Although they have taken shape in the shadow of Japan, the scientific showcases of the Pacific Rim look for inspiration to California's Silicon Valley, where academics and entrepreneurs race to take ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace. In Hong Kong researchers are already working on projects for clients ranging from a small machine-tool manufacturer in Nanjing, China, to big multinationals like U.S.-based Motorola. Taiwan's scientists have taken on everything from vaccines to satellite communications, and many harbor even grander dreams. "In a few years," confides an aspiring biotechnologist, "I hope to start...