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...Revenge of the Sith,” one thing was sure: McCallum is no Public Relations mouthpiece, smarmily spewing sound-bytes and industry propaganda.He sounds genuinely reverent when he recalls first seeing that legendary shot from the first Star Wars film, where protagonist Luke Skywalker gazes at an alien sunset: “It’s a totally nonverbal moment,” he says, “it’s just two suns and this young kid’s face, and you can see in it the yearning of every boy or girl...
...video retains none of the song’s charm. It begins with stock footage of a sunset reminiscent of the visual noise run behind lyrics on karaoke machines, then cuts to a tableau of the movie’s cast belting “Seasons” to an empty auditorium...
...remind me of scholastic obligations, I was able to do—for a sustained period—what is all but impossible at Harvard: relax.Instead of jogging through the Yard to get to section on time, my friends and I hiked through the woods with the impending sunset as our only time restraint. We started making merry not when we were done watching the previous week’s lectures on tape, but when there were no more dishes to wash.Once during the weekend, my cell phone rang. So I turned it off.Last spring, there was much fuss made...
...Hinohara decided to devote much of the rest of his working days?35 years and counting?to helping elderly Japanese learn to make the most of their sunset years. He formed the New Elder Citizens Group to inspire seniors, and in 2001 published an advice book, How to Live Well. (His publishers convinced him to change the title from the somewhat less commercially appealing How to Die Well.) The book became a surprise hit, selling more than 1.2 million copies and solidifying Hinohara's status as Japan's guru of healthy aging. His seductively simple message: "If you keep working...
...After a couple of hours, we round the final spur and Kamal Kote is before us. A valley of yellow rice terraces juts out over the Jhelum valley below and runs like a scale to the base of precipitous peaks above us. Cicadas are singing in the golden sunset. There are cedars and apple trees and clusters of big houses with handsome shiny metal roofs. But something's not right. There are deep cracks on the path we're on. Dust is swirling around the mountainsides above us. And a closer look at what we thought were houses reveals they...