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Over intersession, one of my roommates flew to Buenos Aires to visit our temporary Argentine. My roommate said that the city was wonderful–“It’s like a combination of Mexico City and Paris”—and that our absent roommate was happy there. In the pictures my roommate brought back she looks happy. The tilt of her head is more coquettish than I remember, the cut of her clothes more sophisticated, her hair glossier, curlier. Because the pictures are a little overexposed, her smiles are undifferentiated bright crescents...
...Kenneth Himmel, head of Related Urban Development, a New York City--based real estate development firm, flew out to talk to him. Himmel's company had been given the job of attracting retail outlets and restaurants to the new corporate headquarters of Time Warner, the company that publishes this magazine, going up on Columbus Circle at a corner of Central Park in Manhattan. Himmel had five restaurant spaces to fill and needed a megastar to anchor the project. Even though Keller had left New York under a cloud, Himmel was betting he could lure him back. The enticement was prime...
...Edwards supporters form part of a larger contingent of 22 College Dems who flew down to campaign for their favorite candidates, while gaining first-hand experience of the political process...
After shaving one-tenth of a second off Tigers sophomore Eileen Altenburger’s lead—then 0.61 seconds—Nadeau flew through the final 50 yards, sprinting into the lead with a burst of speed before touching the wall with a final-leg low 31.59, 0.75 seconds faster than Altenburger’s and good for a 0.14-second...
...week before the war ended, on July 27, 1953, Lee was captured and taken to North Korea, where he spent most of the next 50 years working in a coal mine. In November, Lee managed to escape from North Korea into China, and last month his younger brother flew to the city of Yanji for a reunion. The two siblings barely recognized each other. "It's me, Hyung Doh," the younger brother said, and Lee, now 71, gasped and embraced him. "I escaped death many times during the war and again working in the mines," Lee said quietly. "I knew...