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...solve these impacted problems in eight hours of talks on Tuesday and Wednesday. But their meeting could at least set the tone for whatever combination of shouting and serious negotiation (it is unlikely to be either/or) will succeed the silence. A whole world will be anxiously watching every eyelid they lift or lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geneva:The Whole World Will Be Watching | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...dinner classics” are, of course, dominated by different varieties of steak. I choose a filet au poivre, impressed that the wait-staff don’t even bat an eyelid when I make the oh-so uncouth request that it be cooked “well-done.” It comes out sizzling, succulent and entirely unadorned. Budget to order a few side dishes, and Atkins be damned, because a steak just isn’t a steak without some onion rings or French fries to soak up all the red-meat juices. The house specialty...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Steaking a Claim | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...range than Shakespeare’s First Folio. At one moment, he is a dirty-talking player: for example, “Girl, you look just like my cars, I wanna wax it. / And something like my bank account, I wanna spend it.” But blink an eyelid, and the R transforms into a spiritual guide. “I Believe I Can Fly,” it is safe to say, is one of the most uplifting ballads of our era—as Marriott so aptly explains, “[It] was a song so universal...

Author: By Chris Schonberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Gospel According to R | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

...immediate danger, but that still left the problem of the clutch handle. It was the second day of my weeklong motorcycle tour, and the broken part threatened to scuttle the whole trip. Or so I thought. My friend Julian, who rode back to find me, barely batted an eyelid. Within an hour, he had driven to the nearest town and returned with a new handle, which he installed in 10 minutes flat. "It wouldn't be a Minsk trip," he shrugged, "if you didn't have repairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'Old Buffalo' Charges On | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...flag pole, which marks a major bend in the five-mile course, snapped back and cut Banks’ lower eyelid just as he and freshman Tim Galeback were putting in a surge to chase down a pack of three Yale runners...

Author: By Chris Schonberger, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Flag Pole Stymies M. Cross-Country Team | 10/8/2002 | See Source »

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