Word: sunsetting
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...extra scene will boost the box office. But it should please the film's cult fans (including the 20,000 who are competing online to be president of the Napoleon Dynamite fan club). Let's just say it involves a white dress and a ride off into the sunset. Sweet...
With surf forecasting in place and the new tow-in technique being steadily refined, the records have started to pile up: in 1998 Ken Bradshaw from Sunset Beach in Hawaii rode the first wave over 60 ft.; in 2002 Brazilian Carlos Burle surfed a 68-ft. swell; and this year Cabrinha reached the 70-ft. threshold. Sharp says storm patterns have been relatively subdued in the past few years, but he thinks that when the next El Nino warming of the Pacific happens, adding 20% to 30% to the power of storms likely to impact prime surfing sites, surfers will...
...After the media's lengthy criticism and praise of President Reagan's political life, watching the family's sunset burial service put things into perspective for me. When Reagan's children got up to speak, they didn't talk about Reagan the President or Reagan the politician but about Reagan the husband, the father and the grandfather. Watching Nancy Reagan receive the flag from the coffin and break down crying, and then seeing her children console her, reminded me that she was mourning the loss not of a President, Governor or actor but of her husband of more than...
...predawn operation is a reminder that last week's handover of sovereignty doesn't mean coalition forces have marched off into the sunset; they're lurking just over the horizon. Across the capital last week, barbed wire and concrete barriers were hauled away, opening up some roads that have been blocked for a year or more for security reasons. Iraqi national guardsmen and police are taking over from coalition soldiers and MPs at many checkpoints and police stations...
After the media's lengthy criticism and praise of President Reagan's political life, watching the family's sunset burial service put things into perspective for me. When Reagan's children got up to speak, they didn't talk about Reagan the President or Reagan the politician but about Reagan the husband, the father and the grandfather. Watching Nancy Reagan receive the flag from the coffin and break down crying, and then seeing her children console her, reminded me that she was mourning the loss not of a President, Governor or actor but of her husband of more than...