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...wasn’t too taxing for Penn and Cornell, in similar straits after the aforementioned nor’easter, to play its makeup doubleheader yesterday. Not only that, but the Quakers had to trek up to Ithaca, a good 230 miles away, during the turnaround...
...residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming them with courtly Dari and Afghan social graces burnished by his earlier visits to the country (his 2002 trek across Afghanistan formed the basis of his best-selling travel memoir The Places In Between). His first project was to rid the area of 900 cubic meters of trash-a triumph that earned him much gratitude. "We didn't trust him at first," says Aziz. "So many foreigners come...
...Stewart sometimes wears his age awkwardly. He often grabs unsuspecting friends for a dramatic tango across barroom floors. And, like a boyish backpacker, he worries that a long-anticipated camel trek across Afghanistan may seem irresponsible now that he needs to knuckle down to his job (which involves, among other things, raising $45 million to endow his ngo for preserving Afghanistan's heritage, the Turquoise Mountain Foundation). But when it comes to describing the project that so impassions him, he's all statesman: "This is a development project that says 'we respect your traditional culture, and we are going...
...that they're outsiders to the movie industry and are therefore able to retain a sense of awe about it. At the same time, they're outsiders in the real world, caring passionately about subjects most people shrug off--like who will play Spock in the 2008 Star Trek prequel. In search of kindred souls, they turn...
...Headlining the show was television personality and activist Ed Asner, well-known for his role on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” as the prosecution attorney and three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. Other notable cast members included John De Lancie from Star Trek, who played the role of defense attorney and public agnostic Clarence Darrow. But this performance wasn’t all about the theatre stars. “Make no mistake, my friends, the battle between evolution and Christianity is a fight to the death!” Asner proclaimed...