Word: sunsetting
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Yalies are advised not to stroll around beautiful downtown New Haven after sunset. Too dangerous, apparently...
...perfumed by nearby steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys and 620 sq. mi. of the Savoie region's magnificent mountain peaks. Following Albertville...
...reform, however, is not adding posts but getting rid of them. The U.N. needs a sunset law to eliminate units that have outlived their usefulness...
...unique underlying strengths such as the nine- campus, Nobel-rich University of California, which some educators think may be the best public university in the world; the unsung incorruptibility of most of the state's civil servants; the magic copper light that descends on mile-wide beaches at sunset; even the savage majesty of streaming headlights on the freeways on a clear night. Finally, they single out what Mark Davis, an aide to Governor Pete Wilson, extols as "a new pioneer spirit" among the waves of recent foreign immigrants that may infuse California with a new dynamism...
...Lafayette, several thousand Cajuns are indulging the same habit at the Festival de Musique Acadienne. Clad in T shirts, blue jeans and calico dresses, a throng of two-stepping dancers is raising a fine cloud of dust under moss-bearded branches. On the stage, silhouetted against a red sunset, Johnny Sonnier's Cajun Heritage lays down a pulsating chank-chank rhythm punctuated by accordion counterpoints, soaring fiddles and a piercing nasal vocal: "Jolie fille, jolie fille...