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...cannot possibly understand the longer-term effects of his actions, as they are just beginning to bear fruit. My colleagues and I have continued with the process put forth by our president, and to our delight, we have uncovered several exceptional women candidates...
...Pavilions, moats and reconditioned rice barns sit alongside 66 lavish private villas and nearly 80 suites, while the nearby Dheva Spa?over which dozens of wood-carvers sweated for three years?is an astonishing reproduction of Mandalay's Royal Palace. Extensive use of golden teak throughout the hotel will delight traditionalists, if not the environmentally correct. But everyone will be happy with the tab: introductory rates apply until September, with villas priced from $390 a night...
...show - so much as the power he invests in them. He has a stately bearing, the emotional grandeur associated with Barrymore and Olivier, and a baritone voice of passion, precision and thrust. The musical theater can boast of a few, a very few leading men with the gift of delight: I?d want Kevin Kline on Broadway each year, and Martin Short in any musical comedy. (Short could play both main roles in The Producers, perhaps simultaneously.) But no one exudes the musk and majesty, the showbiz sulphur, of BSM. The New York Times called him Broadway?s ?last leading...
Sophomore No. 4 Audrey Duboc held a 2-0 game advantage over Miranda Ranieri, including a thrilling 10-8 second-game win, but then seemed to lose momentum. Ranieri easily claimed the next three games 9-1, 9-1, 9-0, to the roaring delight of the gathered Yale fans...
...book is part of his rejection of what he has called “hysterical realism,” a form that skirts character development in favor of a plot that “privileges...the fantastic, the paranoid,” he says. To Wood’s delight, though, Smith has since sent him excerpts—since the two are, after all, friends now—of her newest novel, On Beauty, due out in September. Wood notes that Smith seems to have reverted to her comedic roots in the new novel and hints that...