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...cascade down such mountain ranges as the upward-thrusting Himalayas and Andes run rapidly continuously, leaving no room for human error. But the Zambezi gives boarders a chance to rest, "in that it has a beautifully designed sequence: a big rapid is almost always followed by a calm pool." Marc Goddard, former world rafting champion and owner of Bio Bio Expeditions in California, www.bbxrafting.com, has rafted on the Zambezi every year since 1989. He says that, due to the river's special hydrotopographical features, "if you use your fins to face upstream at the right moment on a standing wave...
...line, which offers distressed denim and logo T shirts as well as gauzy evening dresses and tailored suits, will be priced in the more accessible category often referred to as "bridge" and currently dominated by brands like Lauren by Ralph Lauren and Marc by Marc Jacobs. (Dresses start at $475, pants at $275, and jeans and T shirts run from...
...Mitch Landrieu, who ran an unsuccessful primary race for the mayor's office in 1994 against another former Mayor's son, Marc Morial, has since piled up a resume as a state legislator and No. 2 to the governor. He was widely rumored to be thinking about a gubernatorial run, but he and his sister-no doubt coached by dad, who still lives in the New Orleans area-know the chance of the Dems winning statewide in 2007 and 2008 is "out the window", says Stonecipher...
...Within the confines of his office in the early days of the controversy, Summers met regularly with at least four key staffers: A. Clayton Spencer, then associate vice president for higher education policy and arguably Summers’ closest adviser; Marc Goodheart, secretary to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing board; Jason M. Solomon ’93-’95, then Summers’ chief of staff; and Lucie McNeil, then the president’s press secretary. (Solomon and McNeil both stepped down before the end of the school year, citing reasons unrelated...
...much more junior aides. But at his new job at Justice, what his co-workers remember above all is that he lived up to his reputation as focused more on legal reasoning than on political doctrine. "The others were much more open about being part of a revolution," says Marc Miller, a Democrat who worked in the office and is now a law professor at Emory University. "Sam was the least of that, a good lawyer and soft-spoken." Alito sometimes frustrated staff members by examining issues from all sides, sending attorneys back to rethink memos if he didn...