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...year, Washington has been gearing up for a monster fight over filling the first Supreme Court vacancy in 11 years. Instead, the city watched its political generals and foot soldiers put their guns back into their holsters last week. After his meeting with Roberts, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid went so far as to praise the work Roberts had done on behalf of environmental interests in Reid's home state of Nevada. Interest groups, having raised millions in anticipation of war, quickly returned to fighting over Karl Rove. The closest thing to a battle plan that Senate liberals could come...
...unusual positions - some lying on their side, others with their legs apart or face down, a fate sometimes associated in ancient burials with those guilty of awful crimes. One female was found laid carefully on her back, with all her vertebrae in place but her ribs and one foot missing; another had its feet resting on a coral shelf. These skeletons too were headless; some had had their clavicles removed as well. Teeth sprinkled around the top of the spines suggest that the skulls were dug up at least a year after the dead were buried, by which time...
...Across the island, near the vast plain of gray ash that lies at the foot of rumbling Mt. Yasur, other John Frum believers see things differently. Here, every Friday around 8 a.m., the village of Lamakara falls still as three men disappear into a hut, where they change from faded T shirts and trousers into smart tan military uniforms. They then solemnly raise the flags of the U.S., France and Australian Aborigines, with whom they feel solidarity over land rights. When chief Isaac Wan appears, other men regard him with grave respect: they believe he is John Frum's prophet...
After navigating a traffic stop and a dizzying maze of barricades and consulting a half-dozen burly but friendly security guards, I finally found my way to the press tent at the foot of the red carpet to pick up my credential. The staffer begrudgingly handed it over; I don’t think she was expecting any profusely sweating eighteen-year-olds...
...came because I get real college credit that can be transferred and also because it’s a ‘foot in the door’ for Ivy League schools,” says David M. Pritchett, 17. “Particularly Harvard, because they will know I have experience with the environment and the campus...