Word: stones
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Instead, she seeks her pleasures and sustenance where she can. In Canberra, Hillary was winding up a tour of the Australian National Gallery when a gemologist brought out a collection of opals, the fiery, kaleidoscopic stones for which Australia is famous. "I'm interested in opals because they're my birthstone," Hillary told her. While the woman held one glittering stone up to the light, she replied, "They're the hardest of all to grade." Which makes them the perfect birthstone for Hillary Rodham Clinton...
There is a lesson to be learned here: once committed to a point of view, people develop a vested interest. Although Oliver Stone's upcoming Framed! clearly overstates the case in its ugly, baseless claim that White House lawyer Vince Foster killed Nicole (highly unlikely since Foster was "murdered" a year earlier), Stone's case for Goldman's being killed by Al Cowlings in a cleanup operation probably shouldn't be dismissed out of hand...
...think that part of it is that we're a young team and not used to playing with each other," Harvard coach Katey Stone said. "We didn't play with our heads up in the third period...
...Roman life, politics and art. Imaginative drawings re-create the way the Eternal City looked in its glory days. An even older civilization is presented in Olmec Art of Ancient Mexico (Abrams; $80). These people, who thrived some 3,000 years ago, left no written documents, but their great stone faces and elaborate masks speak mysterious volumes. Splendors of Imperial China (Rizzoli; $60) affords a sweeping overview of some 5,000 years of artifacts and art produced by a still vibrant culture...
...Tower of Babel would indicate that there are boundaries. One lesson in Genesis is that history often repeats itself. Could science get to the point where our attempts to learn could get cut off again? By turning off all the electricity, God could throw us back to the Stone Age overnight. KENNETH BERRY Riverview, New Brunswick Via E-mail...