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...Emmylou Harris Cowgirl's Prayer (Asylum). In her 22nd album country music's hippest traditionalist turns to God as the best part of life: wise parent, firm friend, ultimate beau. This sheaf of fine songs, intimate readings and delicately powerful melodies makes divine love sound like a kiss in the back of a pickup. If there's a honky-tonk in heaven, Harris will be the star act on stage...
Some three hours later in Moscow, the proposal was presented to the world's public--the audience at which it was largely aimed--in typical Soviet fashion. The anchorman on the nightly newscast Vremya (Time), his face expressionless, picked up a sheaf of papers and announced, with no more emotion than he might have used to present a weather report, that he had a "statement by the General Secretary of the Communist Party." Then he droned on for half an hour as the news agency TASS distributed the statement around the world...
...small table in Eliot Square’s Cafe Paradiso Sunday afternoon, sixth-year doctoral student Lauren J. Willig is sipping a latte and marking up a thick sheaf of papers with red ink. But she’s not poring over the rushed contentions of a new batch of undergraduate midterms, or a draft of her dissertation on British history of the Tudor-Stuart period, or even a judicial opinion for her second year at Harvard Law School...
...left with a collection of anecdotes and a sheaf of thesis paper. This act of forced renunciation cannot be all bad. More than Senior Week—which will, I fear, give me flashbacks to my high school senior spring, wherein many of my classmates waxed maudlin to the strikingly misconstrued soundtrack of Green Day’s “Time of Your Life”—finishing my thesis has prepared me for leaving Harvard. Come June, I suspect I will be left much as I am now: forlorn, with only anecdotes and sheaves of paper...
High-schoolers gearing up for the college admissions circus have a new sheaf of stats to spend the next eight months poring over, but proud Harvard loyalists can breathe easy: The College is still “America’s Best,” at least according to the 2005 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s influential rankings, released today...