Word: walke
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...Mode of transportation: bicycle. As the saying in most every 4th-grade pick-up football game goes, "Suckers walk...
Despite its height, climbing up Mt. Harvard is hardly a death-defying experience. "It's an undistinguished range; it just happens to be very high," says John C. Reed of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver. Reed, who has climbed the mountain once, describes it only as "a long walk" of about three or four miles...
...Washington officials, have a Jewell connection. Bomb components being reconstructed by the feds may someday lead elsewhere. But meanwhile, Jewell and his distraught mother (who was planning her own press conference) "have no semblance of a normal life," says Bryant. Jewell rarely leaves the besieged apartment--not even to walk...
...Washington isn't a place for the softheaded or tenderfooted. Walk into one of those happy-hour joints on Connecticut Avenue any weekday after 5 p.m., when the Piedmont winds are racing through the marshes and lobbyists have dispersed their Benjamin Franklins to the elected officials who call this marbled burg home, and you're likely to have to face off some Pellegrino-bloated Republican freshperson, waving an assault weapon or, worse, a bill to bring those hand cannons back to every suburbanite with a dandelion-free lawn to defend. Which is when you have to talk fast or else...
...hadn't we better get back to Mr. Jingles? He has befriended the death-row inmates and guards who are The Green Mile's core cast of characters (the Mile itself is a painted corridor the cons must walk to what is inevitably known as Old Sparky). Set in the deep, sleepy and racist South of 1932, the novel asks the question, What if a hulking but gentle and close-to-mute black man with a gift for Christlike healing were sentenced to die for the brutal kidnapping and murder-rape of two little white girls--crimes...