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...contests begin early Saturday afternoon with the Club events and the Master Doubles. The last events of Saturday are two of the most exciting, as the Charles hosts 75 of the best scullers in the world in the Championship Singles. The top three finishers in the headrace will be invited to race again on Sunday in the Charles Schwab Sprint Challenge on a course that begins just after the River Street Bridge and ends at Weeks foot bridge...
...panel depicts a gray storm cloud with a bit of sun peeking from behind it. The orderliness of the lawn suggests that Stella, the old woman, is attempting to control her life. Stella stares at the lone leaf, which represents her fate, in a vain attempt to master it. Its lengthy distance from Stella may point to her inability to control every aspect of her life. The storm cloud represents the things that threaten the fragile leaf, the things that threaten Stella’s destiny. Stella looks to the cloud, but, even more so than the leaf...
...collaborations, but Davy and DJ Tommy -- who both have more than a decade of experience professionally fiddling with sound equipment -- are the ones largely responsible for the high quality of LMF's recordings. Davy -- who plays several instruments -- composes, arranges and edits the music, while Tommy is the master at splicing in new beats...
...Ristelhueber has not always been an artist, having first taken a master's degree in literature, and not producing any visual art until 1980, when she was already past the age of 30. Her shift towards the visual is significant, for it underlines an important aspect of her artistic philosophy. She abandoned literature in favor of visual art because she believed that "there is no greater reason to make art than to explore the world as it is", and that, by extension, a literary description could not possibly express the nature of a physical image as well as a visual...
...owed the airport manager a favor. So the next night my colleagues and I invited Syed and his family over to the hotel for a barbecue dinner. His sister, wife and brother-in-law all had master's degrees, and the conversation was agreeably familiar - not much different from many you'd hear in the U.S. Syed also brought his eight-year-old niece. She was a sweet kid, friendly and smiling, and a little wild. And she kept sneaking away from the table to play beside a stream that ran through the hotel garden. Then her uncle asked...