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...sight: men and women in historical costume rolling drums of flaming tar down the cobbled streets of a southern English town, lighting up the night as drums beat and crowds roar. Others follow, bearing burning torches and letting off deafening fireworks. The air is dense with the smoke of vast bonfires, ablaze in surrounding fields and on hillsides. No, it's not a re-enactment of Dante's Inferno. It's Bonfire Night in the Sussex town of Lewes...
...want real antiques without the hard sell, get out to Sharma Farm, tel: (91-11) 2463 1845. Owner B.R. Sharma's Indiawide network of suppliers have been unearthing antiques for more than 30 years. He displays the wares in vast sheds on a sprawling estate in the city's south. You're free to browse acres of Tibetan trunks, Rajasthani cupboards and rolltop desks without nagging. And although Indian law prohibits the export of items more than 100 years old, if something truly venerable appeals, Sharma's carpenters will knock up an imitation for a fraction of the price...
...much-needed space from being freed up. At some point, a more extensive renovation may be necessary. In the meantime, however, upgrading the MAC’s facilities seems to have satisfied students’ main concern—the dearth of workout machines. The new equipment is a vast improvement—even if it’s only a stopgap solution...
...blowout, the National Guard memos are truthful or fraudulent, the economy is rebounding or relapsing. You can watch Fox News and see your surrogate reduce my surrogate to a sputtering fool. I can go to my favorite political sites and follow the blogrolls, link after link, discovering how vast is the universe of people who realize that I am entirely right about everything. This virtual self-gerrymandering promotes black-and-white thinking. (On many political blogs, if there's one thing worse than an enemy, it's an ally who's not ideologically pure enough.) Yet it also makes...
...listening to Toby Keith." Mama Laura taps her toes while Uncle John hums a Peter, Paul and Mary tune in protest. In back, half the kids sing along with the radio raucously, and the other half start shouting to drown them out. Outside the window, vast prairies and scenic prospects pass by, and dark storm clouds gather, unnoticed...