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...storybook ending to her Harvard career, women’s golf captain Merry Chiampa won the top individual honors at the Northeast Championships over the weekend, firing an 82-73—155 to lead the Crimson to a first-place finish in the team’s final action of the 2003-2004 season...
After following the Crimson all season, it seemed the fitting storybook end to the season. Doubted by many for most of the way, Harvard took on the role of unheralded No. 1 of the east...
Perhaps it was the storybook nature of the show’s conclusion, as Big swept Carrie off her feet in the City of Light. I sure hope it wasn’t Miranda’s maid’s final speech, a sentimental and condescending gaffe that was the nadir of the evening’s otherwise splendid entertainment. The “mystical working-class” providing affirmation to the rich woman she washes dishes for? Please...
...Just down the street from Ryu lives another North Korean bride, whose tale has less of a storybook ending. Kim was a nurse back in North Korea and first tried to come to China seven years ago. Instead of crossing into a city, where she could melt into the crowds, Kim hiked up into the rugged mountains surrounding Changbai. Up in the alpine tundra, there were no border markings, and Kim wandered for days, unsure at first if she had reached China or was still in North Korea. To protect her chapped feet from the snow, she wrapped grass around...
...politics, he says, requires the same key skill as success in business: salesmanship. "He is who he is," says Giuliano Ferrara, a Berlusconi confidant and editor of the conservative daily Il Foglio. "Berlusconi is an outsider, the Milanese businessman who became Prime Minister. That's it." Throughout his storybook life - singing for tips on a cruise ship in his teens, making his first million in real estate in his 30s, launching a media empire that helped push him into the Forbes Top 50, and now, at 66, the most loved and loathed leader since World War II - this...