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...someone like Bing, an elderly gentleman who used to cut lawns in my neck of Miami. Each year Bing would tell us what kind of hurricane season to expect. The key to his method was May: if it was a hot dry one, we'd better break out the window shutters; if it was cool and rainy, he'd tell us to relax. And he was usually right, especially in 2004 and 2005, when Florida got pummeled by enough hurricanes to blow Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall off Key Largo forever...
...when the Chinese government forcibly replaced the second-ranking personage, the Panchen Lama, with its own nominee. Most Tibetans rejected Beijing's choice, and many worried that the Karmapa might suffer a similar fate. But in 1999, the 14-year-old, in disguise, clambered out of a monastery window and was spirited on foot and by horseback and helicopter to India, becoming the Tibetan diaspora's teen hero in the process. A nervous Indian government refused to let him travel abroad for eight years...
...morning of 9/11, Rescorla heard an explosion and saw Tower 1 burning from his office window. A Port Authority official came over the P.A. system and urged people to stay at their desks. But Rescorla grabbed his bullhorn, walkie-talkie and cell phone and began systematically ordering Morgan Stanley employees to get out. They performed beautifully...
Should Ellen DeGeneres stop planning for her wedding to Portia de Rossi? The potential proposition, if it succeeds, sounds like a recipe for heartbreak for gay rights supporters, opening only a small window to marry from mid-June to November. But it shouldn't be. In fact, if lawyers successfully fight the delay, the ruling sets the stage for gay newlyweds to push the issue back home in states all over America, even as it provides Californians the strongest-ever protection against anti-gay discrimination...
...people, like the woman silhouetted in her living-room window in Colorado Springs, trapped in their new suburban compartments. Adams' book helped create a new kind of landscape photography, tough-minded about the mess humans make, that's been pursued by Richard Misrach, Edward Burtynsky and scores of others. Just like Frank, Adams turned American vision toward some darker realities. But if we couldn't look in that direction, why would that qualify as vision...