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With two flaps of its wings, the hawk suddenly took off and roosted in an elm. After a few minutes, I began to notice that the squirrels in nearby trees had ceased their usual pitter-patter. They pressed themselves tightly against the bark, utterly motionless, tensed against a predator they could sense but could not see. An ancient dance between predator and prey was being performed; with the exception of our little crowd, the hurrying students and tourists were oblivious to the drama...
...Thursday morning, as usual, my radio alarm clock turned on "Imus in the Morning" to rouse me for a new day. The first words my semi-conscious mind processed were the I-man's rambling: "The big news of the day is the Yankees have acquired Roger Clemens...
...Thursday morning, as usual, my radio alarm clock turned on "Imus in the Morning" to rouse me for a new day. The first words my semi-conscious mind processed were the I-man's rambling: "The big news of the day is the Yankees have acquired Roger Clemens...
...oracle of the American economy, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, spoke again on Tuesday, reporting to Congress in his usual dry abstruseness that the economy remains "solid" but that "after eight years of expansion, the economy appears stretched in a number of dimensions, implying considerable upside and downside risks to the economic outlook." Which means, says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl, that Greenspan is "raising a yellow flag to indicate that the best of the nation's inflation news may be over. He wants everyone to know that the Fed stands ready and alert to raise interest rates...
...based on Sonny Bono's memoir, is that it refuses to be awful--viewers expecting camp will do better trolling VH1 for Cher videos. The story of Sonny and Cher's rise and fall, comeback and dissolution is standard-issue backstage drama, albeit one with more bobcat vests than usual. Renee Faia does a spot-on Cher, suggesting humanity beneath the tics. Jay Underwood gets Sonny's doofiness but not, one realizes in its absence, the wimpy vulnerability that made him tolerable. The revelations, then, are that Sonny's stage persona was not just one dimensional--one-and-a-half...