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HARVARD ab r h po a eMcCaffrey, c.f. 2 2 1 3 0 0McGrath, 1b. 5 2 3 9 0 0Ticknor, l.f. 4 0 1 0 0 0DesRoches, 3b. 4 1 0 3 1 0Rex, r.f. 2 1 0 3 0 0Mays, 2b. 3 0 0 4 3 0Wood, s.s. 4 0 1 2 5 0Sheldon, c. 4 0 0 3 0 0**MacHale...
...fire fighter, Lau grew up the fourth of six kids in a public-housing estate in Hong Kong's industrial Tai Po district. Today, he commands about $1 million per movie and averages three a year; in addition, he performs several concerts annually for about $125,000 a show, and he boasts a steady stream of lucrative fees for advertisements and endorsements. This level of success "is more than enough," says Lau, whom friends describe as traditional and who lives in a house next door to his father's in Kowloon. In his spare time, Lau practices magic tricks...
...know why one of Taiwan's poorest counties, which had never failed to vote KMT, had turned against the party. The defectors of Yunlin helped Chen to his paper-thin victory margin and "stripped me of everything, even my underwear," said Lien, according to KMT legislator Hsu Shu-po, who was present...
...disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from 8 in 1998. "France has clearly expressed a demand for a more social approach," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for the Study of French Political Life at Sciences Po in Paris. "Borloo is the response." Raffarin dutifully resigned after the right's rout at the polls, but Chirac opted to renominate him and install Nicolas Sarkozy, the most ambitious figure on the French right, as Economics, Finance and Industry Minister. Except for Borloo, a politically unclassifiable figure with...
...sharecropper's son who led fellow prisoners at a Mississippi jail in a bluesy work song that four decades later became a Grammy Award--winning hit; in Chicago. One day in 1959 when musical archivist Alan Lomax was at the prison collecting material on a tape recorder, he captured Po' Lazarus, Carter's song about a man who is hunted by a lawman and gunned down. In 2000 the song found a new audience when it appeared on the sound track to the Depression-era film O Brother, Where Art Thou...