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...Lecter character was genius uncorrupted by conscience. Inside him, polar opposites coexisted: elegance and heartlessness, fastidiousness and cruelty, insanity and insight. He's a great people-reader, exercising a hypnotic power over those he meets, and with an acute instinct for the emotional jugular. This is on display the first time Hannibal appears in the books - when Will Graham visits him in a prison cell in Red Dragon - "Graham felt that Lecter was looking through to the back of his skull. His attention felt like a fly walking around in there...
...Reykjavík, Icelanders gather around dozens of massive bonfires to sing traditional folk songs accompanied, according to local legend, by trolls, fairies and elves. (Iceland's Tourist Board claims that 80% of Icelanders believe in little beings.) At midnight the city explodes in a massive fireworks display. The dancing and partying that follow last until the sun comes up, which in Iceland is at about lunchtime...
...around a café, sipping a French roast, surfing the Web? Ready for an upgrade of its own. Walk into the Northbrook, Ill., store, and you will see where Starbucks is headed. Bookcases line one wall, overflowing with espresso makers, French presses, coffee beans, thermoses and mugs. Next to a display case of food is a shelf full of CDs and DVDs. The space devoted to preparing drinks has been reduced by a quarter and re-engineered to conserve movement and space. Vertical shelves set into the wall help keep workers in one place as they reach for syrup bottles...
...without sophomore Kai Itameri-Kinter until Saturday, missing from Harvard action due to a national competition. The women’s foil continued to impress despite its young makeup. Freshmen Artemisha Goldfeder, Anna Podolsky, and Arielle Pensler put on a 9-0 performance, topping their 8-1 display on Thursday night and further validating their place in the college ranks. “They are extremely impressive compared with the first meet and they are progressively getting stronger,” Brand said. “They realize what they need to do.” The women...
...couldn’t get our best team out there, and everyone’s tired from so much play lately. But it was still a weekend for some good practice.” Sheth, playing fourth for Harvard on its five-man squad, put on a gutsy display, winning three of his fourth matches in five games and finishing 4-0 for the weekend. “I played the best squash I could’ve asked for,” Sheth said. “I beat a lot of players that I’ve lost...