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...about $11,000), and nothing for the two years before that. "In all sports, not just surfing, the raw talents are here," says Puloka. "Every time a coach visits Tonga he says, 'You've got the talent, they just need to be developed.'" Tonga's all-time brightest sports stars, rugby players Willie Ofahengaue and Jonah Lomu, both achieved fame playing for other countries, Australia and New Zealand respectively...
...considered it his way of fighting against the degradation of American society: he would collect the sperm of Nobel Prize winners, America’s best and brightest, and match them with intelligent women who need sperm. But the Nobel sperm was few and far between, forcing Graham to become less and less choosy about his donors and to give his clients choice in sperm...
...Litang festival, slated this year for Aug. 1 and lasting for five days, is one of the biggest and brightest on the Tibetan Plateau. Given that it's just two days' drive from Chengdu, capital of China's Sichuan province, it's also one of the more accessible of the summer festivals that take place across what was once the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Kham-a sweeping expanse of grassland now incorporated into Sichuan, the Tibetan Autonomous Region, and the provinces of Qinghai and Yunnan. Many of the thousands of Tibetan nomads (or Khampas)-swathed in fox-lined cloaks, their...
Young, brash and full of unabashedly liberal ideas, Toney Anaya was considered one of the Democratic Party's brightest lights in 1982 after he won the Governor's seat by a landslide in conservative New Mexico. Anaya, now 44, immediately presented the legislature with sweeping plans for educational innovations, prison reform and economic development geared to high-tech industries. As the nation's only Hispanic Governor, he spoke out frequently on minority issues, and was known to entertain dreams of someday winning a Cabinet position, perhaps even the vice presidency. "My political options in New Mexico are limited," said Anaya...
...ticket. "He is magnificent." Yuri, a young soldier on his way to Afghanistan, exclaimed reverently, "I will carry the memory of this afternoon with me always." Reviewing the program of Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin, Critic Dmitri Bashkirov wrote in Sovietskaya Rossiya, "He indisputably remained the brightest bearer of the Russian performing tradition. I think there was not one person in the hall who didn't leave the concert in a happy, elevated mood." After watching on TV back in the U.S., Violinist Isaac Stern reached Horowitz by phone to say he had had tears...