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...another poet who wrote a lot about rivers. A stanza from his Song of the Darling River could apply to most of Australia's rivers. "I drown dry gullies and lave bare hills,/ I turn drought ruts into rippling rills./ I form fair islands and glades all green/ Till every bend is a sylvan scene." Rob Arthur, Melbourne...
...running a hand over his shaven head. "I guess I'll never come back to Russian movies. For me, as an investor, it's not interesting. Any guy in the world dreams of being involved in American movies." This is the great exchange: Hollywood cachet for the right to till these new fields of Russian wealth. But the ground can be treacherous. Hollywood producer and consultant Robert Cain spent several years working in Moscow, and though he has hopes for the future, he has little positive to say about the current state of Russian moviemaking. "Russians seems to be good...
...return, they give Halo most of their waking hours, which vastly outnumber their sleeping ones. For the past few months, shifts at Bungie have run from 6 in the morning till 2 in the morning. One manager confessed that he was so strung out on caffeine, he had to drink a Diet Coke just so he could kill his cravings enough to fall asleep. The Bungies bring a grinding, jeweler's meticulousness to what most people consider an unhealthy amusement for children. To give me an idea of the level of detail (which is a term of art at Bungie...
...getting his birds to bite them, Wideman pens a single, luminous, 2 1/2-page sentence about an American in Brittany who hears what he wrongly thinks is a demented young boy babbling incoherently. The story's title, Wolf Whistle, is the same as a 1993 Lewis Nordan novel about Emmett Till, the real-life civil rights martyr whose name Wideman's character eventually invokes: " ... I saw for the first time two parrots singing, swaying, pecking gently at the bars of their rusted, oriental cages, two lynched birds I'd teach to warble Emmett Till, Emmett Till...
...author of The Swamp, a well-received book on the Everglades, explores why the tragedy of 2005 was the result of mismanagement, myopia and missed opportunities, and the pivotal role played by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As he says, "If you thought Katrina was bad, just wait till the next...