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...tried to dig a small pond for waterlilies, but the shovel blade went an inch down and hit rock. Everywhere I dug, I clanged against rock. I called in a guy with a back hoe and he harvested boulders for a couple of hours, until we had a hole big enough to be a bull's grave and ringed with enough rocks to build another house. This field has never been cultivated, for good reason, and, if domesticated at all, is meant for sheep. We once thought about tilling it and putting in something organized, like wheat. We gave...
...summer session at Gallaudet University. A few lazy clouds threaten to water the already green campus and bathe a modest statue of founder Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Off the main quad, an orange steam shovel dips, lifts and pivots, grumbling to itself. Few students hear it. Gallaudet is the country's foremost college for deaf people. When Jim Haynes, at work nearby, instructs his philosophy class that "Plato argued that the concept behind this desk is more real than the physical thing itself," he does so manually, in crisp American Sign Language (ASL). His 12 students watch his hands intently, with...
...influence isn't readily apparent on the Golan. For the men on the ground who make up Japan's only overseas military operation, the curbs on their duties are surreal, a day-to-day life ripped out of the pages of Catch-22. Soldiers aren't allowed even to shovel snow from the street with troops from other countries because that would be an exercise of collective security. If the stable situation in their section of the Golan were to deteriorate into conflict, Furusho's men are allowed to shoot to kill only in self-defense. The Canadians have orders...
...Gore's appeal. But they're still looking at the same steaming pile that Sauls wouldn't touch. If they leave it be, they can play ball with SCOTUS, honor the canvassing boards anew, and maybe put Gore and this whole thing to bed. If they pick up a shovel looking for the pony, they've got to get it done in a week - once, of course, they figure out how to do it - or set off a whole new fire in the legislature. And boy, would Rehnquist ever be pissed...
Rose silenced any questions about his arm when the junior quarterback used it effectively to drive the Crimson into the red zone on Harvard's first possession. Rose opened the game with six completions and a shovel pass to Palazzo behind the line of scrimmage. Two of Rose's throws were short passes at the line of scrimmage to junior wide receiver Sam Taylor, who turned the tosses into modest gains...