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...horse, a seventh-round draft pick--just don't ignore the fall's best new series (based on the book and movie) any longer. This high school football drama is a moving, warts-and-all portrait of life in hard-up Dillon, Texas, nailing the fine points of small-town politics and faith that TV too often romanticizes or ignores. It's a poignant picture of what a championship team means to a town that can't afford to wait till next year...
...unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too. Oh, and it's a comic book: Bechdel's breathtakingly smart commentary duets with eloquent line drawings. Forget genre and sexual orientation: this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other...
...residents of Trest, a sleepy Czech Republic town in the highlands halfway between Prague and Vienna, have been putting up elaborate nativity scenes in their homes for almost 200 years. Bukvaj's is just one of 15 homes that open up to the public from Dec. 25 to Feb. 2 each year. The healthy rivalry that exists among the often amateur wood-carvers is the source of constant innovation. Bukvaj, 63, a retired miller, has recreated dozens of species of mushrooms, butterflies and birds in miniature. He's also introduced transparent glass lakes that showcase his tiny wooden fish...
...your books. Your tickets are far and away the most expensive in baseball, not to mention the hardest to get. How exactly are mortal fans supposed to get within a mile of Fenway Park next season? How much sense does it make that ticket prices in the ultimate college town are out of students’ leagues? Here’s some news for the Yawkey brain trust: All of Boston is Red Sox Nation, not just Louisburg Square—yet it’s hard to imagine how else the team will earn back Matsuzaka?...
...administration of Iran's then-President Mohammad Khatami. The E.U. followed suit after 9/11, but as the drums of war began sounding against Iraq, Rajavi and her husband, Massoud, left Camp Ashraf. Massoud's whereabouts are unknown, but Maryam repaired to a bridgehead in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris. French anti-terrorist police raided the place in 2003, securing millions of euros and taking Rajavi and some of her collaborators into custody. Several of Rajavi's followers set themselves on fire to protest her arrest, confirming official French concerns about the cultish nature of the group...