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...back big man from the U.S. Virgin Islands displayed so little emotion on the court that opposing fans derisively called him Spock. But after defeating the New Jersey Nets and leading his San Antonio Spurs to their second NBA championship in five years, perennial All-Star power forward Tim Duncan, 27, has been starting to act a little more like Captain Kirk. There he was in the opening two games of the NBA Finals, shouting instructions at and cajoling his teammates, giving an encouraging smack to his mentor and teammate David Robinson, and even screaming after throwing down a slam...
LAUREL T. ULRICH, James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History
...anything with a knife and putting together dry ingredients.” This dry ingredient hang up, Katzen solemnly notes, is why the short cut of cake mixes are so popular. But cooking is easy, Katzen seems to implore. It’s not even necessary to rely on Duncan Hines...
...Over in Bangkok, Duncan Palmer, general manager of the Sukhothai, is shrugging bespoke-suited shoulders at what would normally be a terrible occupancy rate of 35% and is waiting for September, when, hopefully, "the real pickup" will come. "Thailand hasn't been affected by SARS as much as China, but we're still tarred with the same brush. People in Europe are going, 'Hmm, darling, let's save Bangkok for next year...
...brooding, complex Brown hungers for Blair's job with a Shakespearean avarice; Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith calls their squabbling a "pantomime" that skews government policy to serve their ambitions. But at bottom they both know they must hang together or hang separately. This does not resolve the catch-22 Blair has been facing since the five tests were concocted: if the economics look bad he can't campaign; if he doesn't campaign the poll numbers won't move; if the poll numbers don't move, his allies lose heart and the chances of ever winning a referendum dissolve...