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...article and seeing him in a TV interview, I was taken by his pure heart. He is uncomfortable about the money and acclaim and seems like a well-grounded young man. I hope uptight Americans can see past Miller's rebellious streak and cherish him for the free spirit and fine skier he is. Deborah A. Schmuck Denver Your story referred to competitive skiing as a "world where winners get endorsements and losers work for the ski patrol." That view serves only to demean a rescue cadre established to serve the public in ways that no other organization could. Members...
...fallacy of seeking eternal life. But much of its philosophy and even its narrative remains an enigma, either by design or oversight. For example, Aronofsky blurs the relationship between the different Thomases so you don't know if they are all the same man or reincarnations of the same spirit or if one is a fiction in another's world. Perhaps we aren't supposed to know, which is fine, but it's not a particularly interesting mystery. The book reads like a static version of an over-worked Hollywood movie - full of arresting special effects but no believable characters...
...when he struggled to convince expatriates and local hoteliers that the Zambezi was navigable: "It is hard to believe that the Zambezi has now become an adventure-sports Mecca." Livingstone might be surprised at the river's new activities, but no doubt he'd wholly approve of the spirit of adventure that informs them...
...death acts as a reminder of the activist spirit of the 1960s, Brinton added...
...Palestinian village that was annihilated in 1948. Minachem Begin, after the attack stated: “Accept my congratulations on this splendid act of conquest. Convey my regards to all the commanders and soldiers. We shake your hands. We are all proud of the excellent leadership and the fighting spirit in this great attack…Continue this until victory. As in Deir Yassin, so everywhere, we will attack and smite the enemy. God, God, Thou has chosen us for conquest.” Following his election in 1977 as prime minister, he said: “The Jewish people...