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...were led in 1869 by a one-armed U.S. Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell. Braving the huge waves and submerged rocks in little wooden boats, they barely survived. These days, most boats are made of sturdy rubber, the guides are experienced oarsmen, and tourists pay for the thrill. The river averages a chilly 5.6?C, and July's rainy season churns up sediment that turns the Colorado chocolate brown. But the water's perils and the sun's searing heat are offset by the Canyon's peaceful aspects: from big-horned sheep scaling cliffs to ancient Pueblan...
...Seeds prove, his greatest gift is that he can unlock the closed cabinet of the male psyche and take out so much that is hidden inside: how it hits a man one evening that he has wasted his life, the way his sexual desire reawakens in middle age, the thrill he derives from seducing a friend's wife, the physical violence he unleashes on others when he is furious with himself. And it is only in his novels, where he makes things up, that Naipaul gets to such truths...
Under the glittering chandeliers of the Wentworth Hotel on Saturday night, even before the uniformed police with sniffer dogs have been replaced by waiters with trays of tempura prawns and chilled champagne, the familiar thrill of success begins wafting through the room. As the crowd of sedate scions in evening wear and young women in strappy party dresses watch the televised count point to a stunning Coalition win, supporters like Ashley Cordner don't need the final results to happily declare John Howard a better Prime Minister than the party's grandsire, Sir Robert Menzies. "I think history will...
...were led in 1869 by a one-armed U.S. Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell. Braving the huge waves and submerged rocks in little wooden boats, they barely survived. These days, most boats are made of sturdy rubber, the guides are experienced oarsmen, and tourists pay for the thrill. The river averages a chilly 5.6?C, and July's rainy season churns up sediment that turns the Colorado chocolate brown. But the water's perils and the sun's searing heat are offset by the Canyon's peaceful aspects: from big-horned sheep scaling cliffs Loh and Behold Avant...
...your name on it." He followed that book's success with The Road to McCarthy, in which he pursued the Irish diaspora around the world. McCarthy wrote in 2001 of his "childlike pleasure" in seeing his books on shop shelves with those of writers he admired - and of the "thrill" of "moving McCarthy's Bar in front of Bill Bryson before anyone catches you." DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation in the 1960s and '70s with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting...