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...topics she winds up writing about are “a combination of luck and instinct,” Orlean said...
LAST MINUTE Just before his speech, Kerry takes a good-luck call from fellow Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who has helped Kerry campaign for more than 30 years. Standing beside Kerry is Mary Beth Cahill, Kennedy's chief of staff until she took over Kerry's campaign...
...buried in his favorite cowboy boots - he had developed a fondness for the American southwest. Don't look for anything morose here. Gweilo is sometimes a bit novelistic for a memoir, but it is alive with delight in the new. The boy's golden hair is considered good luck by the Chinese, who cannot resist touching it. "I was a walking talking talisman," he writes. This, plus his status as a gweilo ("white devil," or foreigner), allows him to walk undeterred into Hong Kong's brothels and opium dens to befriend coolies, Triad gangsters and the real-life model...
Looking to party in the Tasmanian capital? You're in luck. One of Hobart's best-known landmarks and drinking establishments is being renovated-completing a metamorphosis from 19th century brothel to 20th century blue-collar pub to 21st century techno palace...
...lovely single beds, a gas stove, sink, fire place and stacks of wood. I run my hands over the walls to be sure the mischievous late afternoon sun hasn’t camouflaged a light switch, but no luck. The cabin lies on a small man-made lake filled with fish bred by the owner, Booker, a German man who immigrated in the ’60s and has held onto a heavy accent and a smoky cackle. (Do a lot of backpackers come through here? “No, mostly city couples foh dirty veekends...