Word: exception
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...bathing is optional.'" So the 33-year-old U.S. marketing and p.r. executive created AirTroductions, an online service that matches up air travelers for business, friendship, romance - whatever you want from an in-flight neighbor. "You have control over everything you do when flying - which flight, what you eat - except who you sit next to. So I thought, let's see if we can change that." Since launching last fall, AirTroductions has racked up almost 14,000 members worldwide. Post a free online profile, register your flight details and see if other members are on your flight. If you meet...
...America, he is fluent in Spanish and, as he showed in The Lord of the Rings, can handle both a sword and a steed. Says Pérez-Reverte: "Viggo is so good, so in his role, that now it's difficult to imagine Captain Alatriste with another face." Except perhaps his own. "Alatriste is not me," insists the former war correspondent, who spent two decades covering conflicts in Africa and the Balkans for Spanish media. He wrote his first novel when he was 35 and says of his hero: "He looks at the world...
...first 500 meters. Harvard’s own start was shaky at best and landed the Crimson in an early sixth-place hole. “We just got dropped off the start,” Kitovitz said. But we kept our composure well and rowed back through everybody except Princeton.”The Crimson used a strong first 500 to break an early stalemate with Yale, Brown, and Northeastern. Harvard sat in third after 300 meters down, with Princeton holding a solid six-seat lead and Wisconsin in second with a seat advantage over the Crimson. Harvard pushed...
...suit, close the browser window. In times as dire as exam period, youtube.com is not your friend. Productive – Sending out study guides. You’re helping the masses, and you’ll be revered as a savior over email lists across campus. Except by the people who actually made the study guides—they’ll just hate you for making their hard work beneficial to lazy people who never went to class. But they don’t matter; they’re nerds. Not so productive – Sending...
...otherworldly place. Its hills are overrun with young and frightening Maoist guerrillas. Until a few weeks ago, its cities were brimming with baton-swinging riot police in blue fatigues and protesting students with torches in their hands. Average people doing average things seem about as common as yetis?except in the work of Nepali author Samrat Upadhyay. The Royal Ghosts, his new collection of short stories, is full of characters who care for sick parents, fall in love with the wrong people, cheat on their spouses or get drunk in the afternoon when they should really be more responsible...