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...might predict that this newly renovated theater, in the prime location of Harvard Square, would quickly rise to the top of the Harvard theater space hierarchy. But one factor, so key in calculating the perceived value of Harvard's various performance spaces, remains unknown. Carr has yet to come up with a name for his theater...
...elect. But what we're chosen for is important as well. Not only was Harry hand-picked, he was hand-picked to learn magic. This is no ordinary task, but something on which the world depends: a matter of good and evil, of plugging yourself into these great unknown forces and currents swirling around the globe...
...that evaporate from the gum trees and tint the air, is a 10,000-sq.-km wilderness of heavily wooded gullies and forbidding cliffs, home to well over a thousand species of plants. Only six years ago the Wollemi pine was added to the list. These prehistoric trees, previously unknown, were found in one of the region's remote canyons, where they were thought to have grown undisturbed for five million years. To the city's north, the Ku-ring-gai Chase, Marramarra and Brisbane Water national parks preserve the country as it would have appeared to early settlers...
...holds all the records, world and Olympic. He is a 28-time World Cup winner. He has won Olympic gold twice and silver once, and is a gold-medal contender in Sydney. He has been the master of his discipline for 15 years. Yet he's unknown--for it's the fate of rapid-fire pistol shooters not to make it into the spotlight but to disappear, as their bullets must, into a dark circle...
Contemporary writers on the American environment, Rick Bass, for example, worship in the church of Muir: "Must we break everything that is special to us, or sacred--unknown, and holy--into halves, and then fourths, and then eighths? What happens to us when all the sacred, all the whole, is gone--when there is no more whole?" Montana evokes for Thomas McGuane "a terrific evangelical silence." Faith is by definition irrational--it is, in fact, a little like fire...