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...decorated by the city's best silk manufacturers, 22 rue du Boef; the Villa Florentine, in a former convent, 25 Montée StBarthélémy. is an appealing jumble of small shops and restaurants tucked into Italianate pink and ocher buildings that bear witness to Lyons' 15th and 16th century wealth. The first stock market in France opened here in 1506, and with royal patronage the city became the silk-weaving capital of Europe. The cobbled streets of Vieux Lyons are connected by closed alleys called traboules. Originally just shortcuts up and down the hill, traboules were...
...line," he explains, meaning things like equipment, fitness (he blew out a knee last season) and start position--the higher the better, and the better you ski, the higher the start position you get. "There are people who can make a mistake and stay on the course and finish 15th," he says. Why bother? "For me and a lot of the other top guys, we don't make those kinds of mistakes anymore...
...Samper, including several long points in the first game and a highlight film-worthy return—after tripping—that prompted an ovation from the Trinity crowd. It was the latest in a series of tough matches against quality competition for Patterson, who lost to 11th- and 15th-ranked players from Williams and Dartmouth, respectively, within the past week...
With 107 assists in just 16 games, she’s on pace to blow away the Crimson single-season assist record. Monti’s 6.5 assists per game is good for 15th in the nation. And her 1.95 assist-to-turnover ratio this season is more than a 40 percent improvement over her previous best...
...certain, however, is that Ghirlandaio's rich, hot colors and formal precision, his exquisite control of all the microforms within the larger silhouettes--the serpentine waves and knotted bun of hair, the lovely complexities of brocade and embroidery--make this one of the greatest panel paintings of the 15th century and one of greater interest than Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci...