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...Senior Camilla McLean captured the three-meter title with 243.30 points and added a third-place finish on the one-meter. Freshman Renee Paradise was second on the one-meter...
Several sports in Sydney have a Patrick Rafter or Anna Kournikova type in the draw--a real looker--but none has anybody to equal badminton's Camilla Martin of Denmark, who was the attraction on the pressroom TV. To say she is smashing is not just to describe her game. But her game, as it happens, is indeed smashing. At 5 ft. 9 in., she is usually taller than her foe, who invariably is a woman from China, Indonesia or South Korea--countries that dominated the sport until the Danes came along...
...Valerie Lewis, co-owner of Hicklebee's Children's Books in San Jose, Calif., thinks not. "His popularity peaked at Goosebumps," she says. Of the new books, she adds, "We'll have them in the store. But we probably won't be having big displays of them." Yet Camilla Corcoran, a children's books buyer for Barnes & Noble, is bullish on a Stine revival with Nightmare: "We are definitely expecting...
Think of Charles having to steer his longtime squeeze toward Queen Elizabeth at a garden party to make some lame attempt at pretending they can talk civilly ("Mummy, I'm sure you and Camilla are going to have a dreadfully lot to discuss when it comes to horses"). Think of Bush trying to remain good-humored while dealing at a press conference with a trick question that is obviously designed to see if he knows the difference between Austria and Australia. In either situation, it would be perfectly natural for the heir in question to think to himself, "How come...
...Edward Lloyd's wharfside coffeehouse in the 17th century. As then, members bid for underwriting business, although today they do so from a four-story-high, block-square trading room in London. These underwriters form syndicates that are in turn backed by Names--investors who range from British notable Camilla Parker Bowles to U.S. business tycoons like Lufkin and Schwab, columnist Robert Novak, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and smaller fry like Evans. Names are required to risk their entire personal wealth when they back Lloyd's policies in exchange for the right to a slice of underwriting profits. Atop...