Word: weekends
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Storm, the adaptation of Sebastian Junger's 1997 nonfiction best seller that opens this week. We do not speak, however, of the $140 million film. For more on that, you, along with the Warner Bros. executives, can read the critics or check out the box-office grosses after opening weekend. (You'll know them; they'll be the ones with the gnawed-down fingernails and little voodoo dolls bearing a striking resemblance to the July 4 competition: Rocky, Bullwinkle and Mel Gibson...
...still and golden. The summer trees are fat with their foliage. On Fourth of July weekend, I am rereading David Reynolds' splendid book "Walt Whitman's America" (1995). It gives me, among other things, a sense of reassuring continuity. We need the past - good, bad, mythic, squalid - as a counterweight. It is sometimes hilarious to see what a mess - embroiled, quotidian, contemporary - the American past actually...
...just like those squads, the PRI came to the end of its run this weekend, losing not only the presidency but also a number of key government positions to challengers for the first time, um, ever. The big winner: Ex-Coca-Cola exec Vicente Fox and his National Action Party. Fox beat PRI candidate Francisco Labastida in a close race that in many ways came down to a question of style. And swagger...
Four members of the Harvard men's hockey team were selected in the National Hockey League's annual entry draft last weekend...
...Great-Uncle): Hector Alonzo Marisleysis Gonzalez (Second Cousin): Rosie Perez Armando Gutierrez (Family Spokesman): Cheech Marin Greg Craig (Father's Lawyer): Ron Silverman Janet Reno: George C. Scott Fidel Castro: Edward James Olmos Donato Dalrymple: Tony Danza Diane Sawyer: Diane Sawyer Bill Clinton: John Travolta Al Gore: Bernie, from "Weekend with Bernie...