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...Harvard of the West may have a verdant campus, warm winters and Chelsea Clinton. But it no longer has a chance at the NCAA women's basketball title...
...want to sing out, in one of Carrey's trademark siren wails. As dreamed up by screenwriter Andrew Niccol and realized to sunnily subversive perfection by director Peter Weir, The Truman Show is so verdant with metaphor and emotion that it works on any viewer's level. You will laugh. You will cry. You will be provoked to ask yourself why you feel this way. And for once in a blue moon of movies, you will think. Isn't that one of the best buzzes you can get leaving a multiplex...
Nike is staying hitched to the stars. Indeed, it is hard to overstate Nike's veneration for top jocks. The company's verdant campus headquarters just outside Portland is a sort of perspiration museum. Knight's office is in the John McEnroe Building. Other structures are named for Jordan and marathoners Alberto Salazar and Joan Benoit Samuelson. Preschool linebackers are dropped off in the Joe Paterno day-care facility, while the grownups work out in the Bo Jackson sports center...
Within hours, car, bus or train can transport you to splendid coastal vistas, verdant rolling mountains or quaint historic towns. Whether you're seeking an athletic adventure, an intellectual pursuit or a shopping extravaganza, these prime destinations will not disappoint. They're easily accessible and decidedly refreshing. So hop in a car and take off. With no language barriers or fear of lost luggage, nothing could be easier...
March, however, is also the month of spring training, that annual ritual of renewal on the verdant fields of the sunny South. Snapping gloves and cracking bats seem to force the spring even for those of us bracing for the next Noreaster. When the boys of summer return, winter seems a passing memory...