Word: felix
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...This rivalry is too heated for us to just expect to come in and win,” Brown coach Felix Mercado said. “You’ve got to give Harvard all the credit in the world...
...government to get ahead of the curve and begin piecing together the electric infrastructure - smart meters, public charging points, more renewable power - that will speed the adoption of plug-ins. "A car affects the world more than anything else a buyer will purchase in his or her lifetime," says Felix Kramer, founder of the California Cars Initiative, a plug-in advocacy group in Palo Alto, Calif. Plug-ins can turn the car from a force for environmental destruction to something that frees us from oil - but only if we make it happen...
...There is also a mystery at the core of the novel: What happened to Felix Atwood, the man whom Nelly used to be married to and who disappeared under mysterious circumstances? In keeping with its pervasive and carefully modulated echoing of Henry James - especially of his open-ended and slippery ghost stories - this is a book full of hauntings, specters, doubles, reflections and revenants. They stalk the two types of art or mimetic representation that the book brings into contact with each other: Tom's, in language; Nelly's, in images. They also mark the lives and memories...
...this new version became possible when Paula Felix-Didier, the curator of Buenos Aires' cinema museum (and Metropolis fan), decided to sift through old archive material, following a tip-off from a former film club director, and discovered two dusty film cans containing a 16mm copy of the original. Felix-Didier took the material to Berlin to have film experts, amongst them Rother and Wilkening, confirm its authenticity before exclusively allowing the German weekly Die Zeit to make the findings public. Indeed, it has subsequently come to light that a long version of the film was first sent to Buenos...
Five homes. Three country estates. Luxury cars. Private jets. Thousands of bottles of fine wine in the cellars. Chauffeurs, housekeepers, financial advisers and staffers galore. Yes, the self-made British magazine magnate Felix Dennis is living the high life, and he is open--nay, brazen--about his desire to make more money, and lots of it. Dennis, the founder in 1995 of the bawdy "lad" magazine Maxim (which he sold last year with two smaller publications for a reported $240 million), is from the "greed is good" school of business. Worth as much as $900 million, he estimates, the author...