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...most celebrated power chorus in existence will come together this week to sing the West Wing's praises. Vice President Dick Cheney, the highest-ranking graduate among West Wing staff members, will open the two-day symposium in the Ronald Reagan Building. President George W. Bush, a relative newcomer, will give fresh observations on the sacred precincts. Laura Bush will offer a view from the East Wing. Scholars and former inhabitants will plumb the meaning and memories...
...thousand men of Harvard want victory today/ For they know that o’er old Eli, fair Harvard holds sway/ So then we’ll conquer all old Eli’s men/ And when they day ends, we’ll sing again/ Ten thousand men of Harvard gained victory today...
Kinda lame, huh? And most people don’t know it. Still, it’s what we’ve got. A good way to obscure the lameness is to follow Tip No. 1 and sing anyway. Observe...
...artistic epiphany. It came in 1977, he says, as he sat in Tokyo's Jingu Stadium watching his favorite baseball team, the Yakult Swallows. When batter Dave Hilton hit a double, Murakami, then 28, says he heard a voice telling him to begin his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing. "That was one of the happiest experiences of my life," he recalls. "Perhaps the happiest." A decade later came the momentous publication of Norwegian Wood. Until then, the psychomysteries that formed the bulk of Murakami's work had done well but not spectacularly. Norwegian Wood was a phenomenon. A coming...
...opening a window to an alien world. And one of the tricks is charting this terrain solely on the evidence provided by the films we see - separating the region?s customs from the exaggerations and outright lies in the movies. We can guess that Indian people don?t all sing, the way they do in Bollywood musicals. Hong Kong films (at least the ones that have achieved cult status) suggest that the triads run the town, the cops are all sadists and you can?t walk down Connaught Road without getting beaten or eaten. Hongkies will inform you that...