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...during a summer vacation from business school in Vienna, Brabeck traveled to Pakistan with a group of friends to climb Tirich Mir, the highest peak in the Hindu Kush. They drove through Turkey and Afghanistan in a secondhand van and slept in tents their mothers had sewn. The expedition turned into a disaster. In bad weather two of the team, including Thomassen, fell off an ice wall to their deaths. Brabeck survived because he had returned to base camp the day before the tragedy: there had been only enough food for two, and he lost the poker game that...
...could get it, because we each bring so many different things,” Tay adds. “Niki is our shooter, Hallion is the ultimate point guard, and Katie dominates the post. Any one of us could be it.”That offensive balance drove opposing defenses crazy last season, as Harvard torched the Ivy League with a 13-1 record and 10 double-digit conference wins.It was balance, not a lone offensive standout—like 2007 Player of the Year Ashley Taylor, who carried Dartmouth with 17.3 points per game— that earned...
...survey also found some correlation between departments and choice of car. Of 18 respondents in the economics department, eight said they owned luxury cars—one of the highest percentages. And of the 13 East Asian studies faculty who responded to the survey, eight drove Asian-made cars. Overall, Toyota was the most popular make, followed by Subaru, Honda, Saab, and Volvo...
...while Americans began exporting their music for the people; extremist political leaders used threats and violence to chain musicians to their propaganda machines; in-fighting and trend-chasing doomed classical music’s withering popularity—it was no single force but an historical perfect storm that drove the public away.No one could be sadder about the separation than Ross, whose enthusiasm for music as music suffuses the book. His obvious affection for all those composers that posterity forgot leads him occasionally to bite off a larger chunk than his readership can chew (the “Invisible...
When you're a devoutMormon working as an insurance salesman, show business seems like an improbable career switch. But George Osmond was never one to worry about odds. Forty-five years ago, he drove his four sons--whom he taught to sing as a barbershop quartet--to Disneyland for an impromptu performance. It was a big break not only for the Osmond Brothers but also for his five other children--most notably daughter Marie, who hosted a variety show with her brother Donnie in 1976. "We don't care which Osmond is out in front," the patriarch...