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...here I am, on a real biathlon course, on the right skis, shooting with the right kind of rifle at the right distance. It is a strange sensation to have something imagined for a long time take shape in reality. All the time spent out in the backyard aiming at a target only a few feet away, and all the time "skiing" on pavement without a trace of snow in sight, is now being translated into the real thing...
...point in the tour the bus stops at Catedral de Sao Sabastiao do Rio de Janeiro, a modern cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess...
...past two months, Hopkins and his brother Brendan have been working daily to help Daedalus--a Square restaurant and bar slated to open later this month--take shape...
...entered his orbit immediately became an absurd, two-dimensional character. Ken Starr, once a boring lawyer, magically sprouted a buckle hat and musket. And, like all cartoon villains, Starr became single-mindedly obsessed with catching his wisecracking prey. He did everything short of arranging sticks of dynamite into the shape of a woman, dropping a wig on it and hiding behind a nearby rock. Clinton made Starr funny and watchable. And without Clinton on the scene, Starr, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and all the rest revert back to bland, Anglo-Saxon reality...
...pothole on a busy downtown street. Arriving early, Daniels discovered that the hole had already been patched. He quickly redug it before the cameras got there. "He understands how images move the body politic," said Mark Lubbers, an old Indiana political pal. Now the question is whether Daniels can shape his numbers into a politically palatable picture...