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...team’s returning leader in every triple crown category, the kid who had started all 83 games of his Harvard career and who would have been, without a doubt, Sky Mann’s de facto assistant captain in practice if not in name, had to just stand there...
...City, like last year’s pretty but boring Sky Captain, was shot entirely with actors against green-screens. Everything else was filled in later by computers; however, Sin City’s black-and-white sets have a gritty realism that the sepia-tinted Sky Captain lacked...
...idea of a magic bullet is now no longer a pie in the sky,” said Thompson, explaining that the dream of an infallible treatment for cancer is now a real possibility...
...long past bedtime for most children. But in a poor, war-ravaged neighborhood of Kabul, more than 300 men are gathered at a wedding party to listen to the singing of Mirwais Najrabi, a pale, chestnut-haired 13-year-old. He performs in an open courtyard, under the night sky, to an audience that has endured so much suffering and grief over years of oppression, war and mayhem. Yet for this brief, transcendent moment, their burden is lifted by the exquisite purity of the boy's voice...
...Bollingen Prize, poetry's top honor; of pneumonia; in Odessa, Texas. Rejecting the strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple...