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...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...
...compliant phones that allow emergency management to text message as well as make calls; and wrangled four vans with satellite uplinks in the event all else fails. Finally, he got what he jokingly refers to as "footballs," suitcases like the one that contains the President's supersecret nuclear codes, except Meffert's provide superportable communication with the outside world. Total cost: less than $5 million. The weak link remains the 911 system, he says. All three stations were flooded by Katrina, and a new structure capable of surviving a Category 4 storm is still under construction. For now, New Orleans...
...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...