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...Meanwhile, out on the steppe, Jampur is stubbornly?some might say foolishly?clinging to the nomads' age-old way of life. He relishes the freedom of herding and raising animals. And now he has the strongest horse he's ever owned. Even so, he finds his lot desperately hard. At 67, Jampur's fingers are crooked, and he coughs constantly. He walks uneasily on legs bowed as if frozen in the saddle. Jampur spends all his energy tending to a diminishing herd. During the winter, he lives in Uvurkhangai province about 400 kilometers west of the capital. Nearly three-quarters...
...George Fechtner of the Machinists' Union of New England, a leader in the recent strike at Waltham, addressed the La Follette-Wheeler club last night in the Faculty Room of the Union, and declared that the present progressive political movement is a manifestation of an age-old struggle of the common people to secure better and larger lives for themselves...
...Roberts's world is to enter a world transformed, where things are not what they seem. This world sees no barbarians rage nor dragons roar. It bears witness neither to wars nor treks among the stars. This is a world of sentient machines, warring androids caught fast in an age-old conflict. This is a world conceived in the fires of corporate development, born in the era of the Gipper, and sustained by the love of children worldwide for almost two decades...
...families compete to star in a situation-comedy pilot based on their real lives. The would-be stars have their wacky home lives videotaped and evaluated by a panel of experts, including The Brady Bunch's Maureen McCormick. As executive producer David Perler admits, the show proves that the age-old declaration--My family is just as funny as the ones on TV!--"is really just a sentence." In one episode, we meet Joe Mozian, a stay-at-home dad from Old Greenwich, Conn., who seems to have learned how to be a husband and father by watching THE KING...
Although the staging of the age-old musical is fairly traditional, Galper says she chose to emphasize Fiddler’s emotional turbulence...