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Under the wide and starry sky,/ Dig the grave and let me lie..." You know you're on a true literary pilgrimage when your taxi driver can recite Robert Louis Stevenson's Requiem in the time it takes to wind five kilometers up the hill from Apia to the old plantation home of Vailima. It was here that the Scottish writer (1850-1894) - who blended boy's-own adventure with psychological insight and a sense of history in such tales as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Body Snatchers - came...
...About 900 Tannese live in Ianapus, a hamlet where the laden branches of wild mandarin trees hang over small, dark-roomed dwellings thatched with leaves, and dogs and pigs lie in the dust. The tourists who fly half an hour south to Tanna from Port Vila, the capital, come mainly to see the molten belching of Mt. Yasur, the island's live volcano, and rarely visit places like this, self-sufficient communities connected to the world beyond their borders by little more than a web of narrow walking tracks. Money isn't seen here much, either. While few Tannese villagers...
Lucas says he became an actor because his parents, who organized campaigns against nuclear power plants, moved him 30 times before he was 13. "I would lie in bed the night before a new school and decide who I was going to be. It would usually be based on someone I admired from the school before," he says. As he sits next to a poster of The Hustler in his trailer, having successfully campaigned for hybrid vehicles and recycling bins on the Poseidon set, it's pretty clear who Lucas wants to be right...
...groups even before the Senate starts confirmation hearings, probably in September. Between now and then, the great inquisitors, amateur and professional, will look at every person he has known, every penny he has spent, every word he has written and every clue he has dropped about where his interests lie. But for all the predictions of a nuclear winter once the choice was announced, the political climate so far has remained remarkably calm. President Bush, having held the decision close, could only savor the spectacle of paralyzed Democrats grasping for something to object to, liberal activists being forced...
Although it is not unusual for legislators to be self-absorbed (even though most of their constituents can’t even recall their names in most surveys), it is a bit disconcerting that they think they can publicly lie about the governor by accusing him of cutting education funding—in fact he raised it by $3 billion—then make nice with him in the famous “cigar-tent” and ask for autographs for their children. I think he should remind them that “he can break your neck like...