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...public lands abut each other, and the only way to know the difference is to consult maps issued by the state or look for NO TRESPASSING signs. Landowners routinely find unauthorized hunters on their property. Etiquette calls for asking the interloper to leave or phoning the sheriff or game warden. Physical confrontations are extremely rare...
...wanted to scrape off its human ticks." All the same, most of the 11 stories in this book are lighter in tone than those in Close Range, a book that took regular plunges into awe and dread. In a supernatural shaggy-dog story like The Hellhole, about a game warden who discovers a very effective means for dealing with unlicensed hunters, Proulx renews the Western tradition of the short story as the tall tale...
...from Pakistan. Mujahed was captured four months ago in the mountains of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province after an epic chase involving eight helicopters and dozens of troops. Afterward, Afghan intelligence found stored in his satellite telephone the numbers of several top Taliban military commanders, all hiding in Pakistan. His warden says Mujahed was caught with 60 remote-controlled bombs that he allegedly confessed to picking up in Pakistan after attending a Taliban war council in the southern city of Quetta...
...Alban's has more immediate concerns. It lost not only Beach but also as much as half of its congregation, a third of its vestry, its organist and, says a warden, "half of almost everything elseushers, choir, acolytes, people who make the coffee." The average age of congregants has jumped to somewhere in the 50s, and there are far fewer children. Donations are down a third. "All the years we struggled to build this church, we're right back where we started," says a desolate Henson. "How do you hire a rector without money?" Bishop Alexander insists that the diocese...
...biggest “miss” of the week was the Yale-Cornell matchup, in which the Bulldogs—the preseason choice of some publications to win the Ivy title—got manhandled by the Big Red, a near unanimous selection as warden of the Ivy League’s basement...