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...kind of wanted to go get their autograph.”One of those top athletes she had rowed with before. Davies stroked the varsity eight at the World Championships, and after she led the team to a world record performance, the Harvard grad stood atop the medal stand with a gold medal. As the top rower on the top boat, Davies had found the top in another aspect—as the best heavyweight rower in the world.“Caryn is something else,” Lofgren said. “Stroking the varsity eight at Worlds...
Completed couture in hand, Smith is out the doors atop her ‘Blades...
...they’re getting their money” someone says of the wait staff who have asked us to show restraint. And besides, I’m told, the creation of sake bombs, whereby shots of the rice wine are precariously situated between chopsticks running parallel atop a glass of beer, necessitates the raucous slamming of fists. There’s just no way around it.In the course of our couple hours there, the grimaces on the sushi chefs go from mild bemusement to annoyance. I drunkenly wonder aloud of the possibilities of a culture of decorous restraint that...
...Engyoji, tel: (81-79) 266 3240, are rather less grand but pleasant nonetheless, simply furnished with a futon and an urn of green tea. There is no dawn ceremony but private meditation sessions can be arranged. RENGEJO-IN: This beautiful temple, tel: (81-73) 656 2233, is located atop Mount Koya - a place of pilgrimage for over a thousand years, home to Japan's oldest Buddhist sect (the Shingon-shu) and a World Heritage Site. You can reach it via a 90-minute train ride from Osaka, followed by a cable-car ascent. The 48-room shukubo is famous...
...seems likely that the party will instead need to reckon with sex and scandal throughout the final weeks of the election. As conservative George F. Will, writing in the Washington Post last week, put it, the Foley affair is "a maraschino cherry atop the Democrats' delectable sundae of Republican miseries." In the latest TIME poll, conducted the week after the news broke, nearly 80% of respondents said they were aware of the scandal, and two-thirds of them were convinced that Republican leaders had tried to cover it up. Among the registered voters who were polled, 54% said they would...