Word: capes
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This is especially clear at the Canadian-U.S. border, where a gaudy monstrosity has replaced the modest Cape-Cod house that used to serve as the checkpoint for travelers headed north into Canada. I pass under the stainless steel bridge and glance into the reflection-coated windows, and wonder if the security guards behind the bulletproof glass will pick me out as a threatening figure and detain me for further questioning. Since 9-11, nothing is as straightforward for travelers. Even in rural Vermont, the very architecture of the patrol station is there to tell Americans that constant vigilance...
After a summer playing in the Cape Cod League and deliberating his future, Farkes elected to return to Harvard and undergo a long-postponed surgery on a frayed right labrum that will keep him out of fall practices...
...would have been nice for him to have had the surgery in May,” Walsh said. “But how do you take a chance to play in the Cape League away from a kid who has been going out there every day for three years, [playing hurt], and never saying a word...
...Glasgow, the shops on Oxford Street are expensive and don't open before 10 a.m., and at 39, Kennedy's serious about the business of writing - "I lie for a living" - while interviewers have a bad habit of confusing book and author. Which could be embarrassing, since Paradise (Jonathan Cape; 344 pages) is written from within the tortured mind of a Scottish woman who's almost 40, with a drinking problem so severe she can't remember the previous night's sexual encounter. "Fiction is fiction," says Dundee-born Kennedy, and sips her peppermint tea. She has no time...
CHARGED. MARK THATCHER, 51, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; with helping finance a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea; in Cape Town, South Africa. The ex--race car driver, whose business career has been dogged by accusations of questionable arms deals and other shady ventures, was placed under house arrest in Cape Town, where he moved two years...