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Chewing on pizza and hot dogs with all the fixings and with a recording of Neil Diamond's "America" playing in the background, supporters listened to the governor thank New Hampshire for giving him a strong and much-needed victory...
...front of a sold-out Sanders Theater audience, the Harvard sophomore ran into the crowd during the traditional number, grabbed a bouquet of roses, knelt by fellow sophomore Jennifer W. Durham and sang, "Marry me." When Durham accepted a diamond engagement ring, the audience erupted into a five minute standing ovation...
Established in 1903 by British colonial diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes program requires applicants to submit an essay and be interviewed twice...
...paintings, an $830,000 Manhattan condominium and a $2 million vacation house in posh East Hampton, Long Island. Bloom, who also owned a Mercedes-Benz and an Aston Martin convertible, went skiing in St. Moritz, paid up to $500 for a bottle of wine and bought a $195,000 diamond-and-platinum necklace that he said he intended to give to "the woman I marry." Says a former girlfriend: "David Bloom was obsessed with possessions...
...baseball fans seeking spiritual sustenance to carry them through to spring training, the off-season's brightest offering is Diamonds Are Forever (Chronicle; 166 pages; $35, $18.95 paper), a beguiling sampler of photos, artworks and writings about the game. The prose excerpts are literary as well as journalistic (Roger Angell, Wilfrid Sheed, John Updike). The illustrations are less familiar: a haunting photo of a sandlot game by Joel Meyerowitz; the charming primitive canvases of Ralph Fasanella; more sophisticated images by such artists as Robert Gwathmey and Claes Oldenburg. At the heart of them all is that enduring diamond, evoked...