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...wide-eyed followers on Sibley's Central Park jaunt was Miranda Holman, 11, who has been birding since she was eight. When she shyly approached Sibley for an autograph, he asked her to name her favorite bird. "The scarlet tanager," she quickly replied, whereupon the artist sketched a Sibley original of the forest dweller on her notepad. Miranda has seen only one scarlet tanager in her life, but if bird watchers can get their conservation act together, she may see many more...
...Keith, Colby and Tina spend Day 40 and 41? They talked to the camera some and spent a full day making a totem, whereupon each of them chucked their totem in the river. Probst stopped by once. There was the remember-obscure-facts-about-your-teammates immunity challenge. That...
...stories don't relate narratively; they just glance off one another. But they do relate emotionally, "conceptually." As Inarritu says, "It's very simple: you get to know people through their dogs." Take Octavio. His relationship with Cofi is amiable but casual--until a rival handler shoots the dog, whereupon the frenzied Octavio stabs the would-be killer and rushes into his near fatal accident, as maddened by the threat to Cofi as he is by his lover's hesitations and ambiguities...
Readers will recall that Horowitz submitted the ad; The Crimson turned down the ad but suggested Horowitz re-do the piece as an op-ed and submit it in that form, whereupon The Crimson would consider accepting it under its normal op-ed standards. Horowitz refused, writing that since "your editors have censored my ad, why would I have any reason to believe that they would accept anything I wrote on this subject for publication...
...hard enough, you'd actually burn the desk." Speaking of fire, the bush fire rumored to be heading for "Survivor" territory could be a good thing. "When the grass starts to grow afresh after burning off, all the animals will come to feed on it, whereupon you beat them over the head with something," says Lilley. Start putting on that war paint, Mike...