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...plagues of tormenting "musquetors." We know about the Indians who helped them, and we know that they had to eat dogs and horses to survive. We are in the canoe with Clark when he writes, "Ocian in view! O! the joy," straining to hear the waves breaking on the shore he had sought for so long...
...horses sometimes used ropes to pull the boats from shore or from the water...
...What seems clear is that Mahathir's resignation is no publicity gambit to shore up support. Even his detractors acknowledge that. "It's definitely not a put-on job or a political gimmick," says oppositionist Lim Kit Siang. (Though Mahathir had multiple-bypass surgery a decade ago, his health is robust for a 76-year-old.) But neither, it seems, does he wish to go because he feels he has accomplished enough and that it's time for younger leaders to take over?as Lee Kuan Yew believed. Mahathir modernized the economy, enabled Malaysia to gain international respect, and gave...
...have been expecting too much from the event. Despite big promotion campaigns, Japan's J-League has seen attendance figures drop from highs of about 20,000 per game in 1994 to just 16,000 earlier this year, leading critics to warn that if the league couldn't even shore up attendance on the eve of the World Cup, it might not get a boost after it. Korea's league continues to hemorrhage cash, and sports officials worry that the nation's insta-football fans will soon abandon the game, especially because many of Korea's heroes will likely...
...crowded rowboat burdened with a shrouded corpse labors its way out to the middle of the river. Pregnant women, holy men and children, among others, are thought to be clean. Needing no purification by fire, they are simply weighted down and lowered into the river's embrace. Closer to shore, one of the pure bodies has escaped its mid-river moorings and bobs among a group of children who pay it no heed. Varanasi is not for the fainthearted, but for those willing to risk a little discomfort, it offers a raw and intimate glimpse into the Indian...