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...Corl’s great assets as a lighter heavyweight is his mobility. Since he is not bogged down by an extra 20 or 40 pounds, the agile Corl moves faster than his lumbering counterparts...
...storm did win some undergraduates a few hours extra sleep this morning, as several professors who were unable to reach campus cancelled their classes...
...years at Oxford, his early literary efforts and his assorted marriages and affairs. Sophisticated and self-deprecating, flip-flopping between passionate love and fashionable ennui, Mountstuart makes for good company. A pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky fun with celebrity cameos: Picasso appears as a manic Left Bank chatterbox, Virginia Woolf as a venomous cocktail-party boor, and in what amounts to literary incest, Mountstuart indulges in a brief snog...
...year job as a director of information development for a software company, he decided to start a consulting practice. With a master's degree in physics, a Ph.D. in philosophy and experience in computers, marketing, advertising, college teaching and even stand-up comedy, Fried figured that he could earn extra money by opening some kind of business out of his home. "I didn't feel I had enough money socked away to retire as comfortably as I would have liked," he says. "At the same time, I needed a change and wanted to try something different...
...Stranded in a roadless region of Gobi-Altai that had been rendered inaccessible by snowdrifts, Bayarsakhan's family herd of 500 dwindled to 10. After a while, the family even stopped disposing of the corpses, instead piling them around their ger?a felt-covered Mongolian dwelling?for extra insulation. They burned furniture to keep warm. "If you don't have animals," says Bayarsakhan, "you have nothing." To survive, he left everything he'd ever known for a place where people dressed oddly, behaved differently and used paper money instead of bartering. His wife and infant son came with...