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...vegetable garden, that Little Brother had just smacked his first stand-up double or that Sis had been accepted at the local university. The mundane details of life in the U.S.--the score of Friday night's football game, the pattern of a soft cotton dress bought special on Main Street--have always been the rare joy of American soldiers far from home. For every Dear John letter serving notice that a soldier had been dumped by his best girl, a thousand others served warm reminders of Mom's cooking for a holiday picnic under the oak tree...
...bronze-and-glass chairs honoring the 168 people killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, constitute the main component of the memorial, which opened last month. They are positioned in rows that correspond to the floors of the building where the victims were when the bomb exploded. That accounts for the smaller chairs in the second row; the day-care center was on the second floor. Five chairs off to the side, west of the others, are for those who died outside the building. They are positioned...
Councillor Henrietta Davis, who proposed the order along with Kenneth E. Reeves '72, said open communication with the University was the main objective of the order...
...more serious note, Spinney said of the almost 4,000 shows in which he has performed, his favorite episode was the show that followed the death of main character Mr. Hooper...
...decent films from the festival's host country. Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka," a 3-hr, 17-min. "interior road movie" about three survivors of a terrorist attack, earned various critics' prizes for its stark beauty and psychological rigor, but the Japanese film was shut out as well in the main contest. And the strongest entry of the entire Festival, Ang Lee's thrilling action fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was mysteriously shown out of competition, and thus ineligible for the jury's benediction...