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...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...
...child who reimagines the lives of her parents clearly is also bound to paint her own self-portrait using the reflections in their eyes. And so it happens for Devorah Arnow as she memorializes her mother Chenia, a Russian Jewish emigre who settled in Brooklyn in the middle of the 20th century, raised a family, grew old, but never really got off the boat from Europe. Chenia, as Devorah reconstructs her in Carole Glickfeld's Swimming Toward the Ocean (Knopf; 388 pages; $24), lingers on a sort of moral gangplank with a view of the dazzling rides at Coney Island...
...zone to avoid the matchup difficulties and force the Quakers to take three-pointers. Penn has taken by far the fewest shots from behind the arc in the Ivy League this season. Against Brown, Penn did not make a single shot more than a foot outside of the paint in the first half...
...Once hailed by visitors as the "Bride of the Mediterranean," Tripoli has seen better days. The city is in desperate need of a paint job, if not a face-lift. Still, underneath the neglect spawned by three decades of socialism and eight years of sanctions, there's still plenty of evidence of an unmistakably beautiful city...
...hundreds of millions to your bank account. This is what Soros did. The problem is the mistakes themselves. Soros thinks that our history, especially economic history, is sculpted by blunders. It's a radical proposition, as if you suggested that Botticelli's best art was the result of paint splatters. But Soros is insistent: mistakes make history. They also make--and destroy--fortunes...