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...heft of the thing; you pick it up and get the distinct sense that to ski very far with it on your back and then hold it steady enough to hit a four-inch circle at 50 meters is an activity most certainly undertaken by men - oh, and the untold platoons of Nordic Amazons who could twist me into a pretzel. Now that I can handle the thing, and make a decent show of myself as a ski-borne marksman, I realize that my gun has contributed directly to an increase my self-esteem. This makes me love it even...
...shouldn't have ended this way for Neil Rose. The junior quarterback was hailed as a savior when he revitalized the offense and led the team to untold productivity. He set records in almost every significant category and will be remembered as one of Harvard's finest passers. And yet, sadly, Rose valiantly deteriorated yesterday before his fellow students, admiring supporters and more importantly, his family, who had flown in from Hawaii...
...shouldn't have ended this way for Neil Rose. The junior quarterback was hailed as a savior when he revitalized the offense and led the team to untold productivity. He set records in almost every significant category and will be remembered as one of Harvard's finest passers. And yet, sadly, Rose valiantly deteriorated yesterday before his fellow students, admiring supporters and more importantly, his family, who had flown in from Hawaii...
...Robertson must resort to such shifts in focus in order to tell the simple and compelling story of a man or woman gone mad? Countless novels, from Notes from Underground to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, depict the inner lives of deeply troubled individuals, as do untold numbers of movies. But novels and movies share a subjectivity that drama categorically lacks. Both can get inside the heads of their characters in a way that no piece of theater...
...disunity. He didn't realize the uncharismatic Kostunica was the critical ingredient that let Serbs imagine an alternative future. He didn't know how bitterly Serbs blamed him for their blighted lives. The accumulated woes of $45-a-month salaries or no employment at all, four lost wars and untold thousands of lost Yugoslav lives, the NATO bombing that dashed an impoverished economy into visible ruins, the bitter years of sanctions and international opprobrium. Domestic repression and self-serving propaganda had reached critical mass, draining away the last vestiges of his once genuine popularity. "The underlying discontent, up till...