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...with boats for hire. The hillside is covered with beautiful things: the main staircase and a Pelican fountain have graceful statues of biblical figures. Nearby is the Stairway of Virtues (with figures of Faith, Hope and Charity); fountains representing the senses of taste, smell, hearing and sight; and the equestrian statue of Longuinhos, which represents a man who had a daughter he couldn't marry off. The statue has become an object of superstition - it is believed that if a girl walks around the statue three times, she will be married. Could be worth...
Katie Zucker, 16, has sky blue eyes, wild curly hair and a dazzling smile. She is a champion equestrian and an A student. Her parents are doting, her friends devoted. So what's not to envy? Well, there's the small rectangular box attached to her belt that pumps insulin through a tube into her hip. To test her blood, she pricks her finger seven times a day. "It's scary," she says. "If your blood sugar goes too low, you could go into a coma." Sometimes at school her eyes swell, and she can't see the blackboard...
...completed by April now has a wish-and-a-prayer July deadline, without landscaping or other embellishments. But the roof worked, and there are other bright spots. Greece has finished, on time, a brand-new airport, the Olympic village and parts of a new subway. The Markopoulo Equestrian Center is "an Olympic venue par excellence," said British equestrian Matt Straker, attending a recent test event. Athens itself, an ancient city with enough noisy charm to put Sydney and Atlanta to shame, is being spruced up. Some of the city's 60,000 stray cats and dogs have been corralled. Billboards...
Nevertheless, there is plenty to remind Poilane of her homeland here at school. She has continued to pursue her love of riding as a member of Harvard’s equestrian team. And then there’s always the weekly call home—more specifically, the conference call she makes to the management team of the company she owns...
...Midwest Grill is an incidental sideshow. The restaurant has a vague cowboy feel, with many quasi-artistic representations of cattle and a large number of equestrian accoutrements. In fact, should selling meat ever become uneconomical, The Midwest Grill certainly has enough leather products on display to immediately relaunch itself as Cambridge’s premier S&M supply store. As it is, however, the wall hangings do enough to convince doubtful patrons that the Midwest to which the title refers is not the repressed and repressive setting of American Gothic, but some exotic, mythical land in the Southern Hemisphere, where...