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...were stranded in a foreign land, with little idea where you were or where you were headed, what would you do? Flirt with a stranger, of course. “Do you like Chet Baker?” the Egyptian man in a police uniform asks the lady behind the counter at the bus station. “What?” she responds, confused. “My funn-ay Val-ahn-than,” he sings as his colleagues look on incredulously. This awkward moment—the kind in which only one party realizes that...
...Harvard women’s hockey team picked up another important championship on Friday night. The Crimson (24-1-0, 19-0-0 ECAC) followed up on its Beanpot win with a gritty 3-1 victory over Princeton (12-8-5, 10-7-2 ECAC) at Baker Rink to clinch the ECAC regular-season crown.Freshman Kate Buesser knocked in the game-winning goal with just five minutes remaining in the game, breaking a 1-1 tie and propelling Harvard to its fifth ECAC regular-season title.“We understand [other teams] are going to bring their best...
TIME's Aryn Baker spoke recently to Aitzaz Ahsan, the leader of the lawyers protests that shook the regime of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last year. He was allowed to speak publicly but briefly in early February before being returned to the house arrest he has suffered since Musharraf imposed emergency rule...
There is a moment at the conclusion of “Let’s Get Lost,” Bruce Weber’s 1988 documentary, when legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker betrays a rare moment of honesty. When Baker learns in an interview that he’s secured a shipment of prescription painkillers from a doctor in Europe, the once-great artist looks with the pain of a mendicant in his eyes and says, “I didn’t know if I would make it through the week.”Screened...
...McCain can also expect to attract more endorsements in the days ahead. Up until now, his list of endorsements has been split between party elders like Phil Gramm and Howard Baker and newspaper editorial pages. (Aides sometimes refer to their boss as "president of the ed boards.") On Wednesday in California, Rudy Giuliani is widely expected to bow out of his candidacy and endorse McCain, his old friend...