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...principality whose heads of state are the president of France and the bishop of Urgel.” Fayanju correctly answered Andorra. Boulerice’s last question on “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?” was to name the city where the Trevi Fountain is located. Boulerice didn’t know the answer. Boulerice lost...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mental Champs Get Physical | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

Having out-muscled Harvard’s other Quiz Kids, Boulerice and Fayanju were ready to rumble. But before they could begin, Boulerice paused to ask Fayanju if he knew where the Trevi Fountain was. “Rome,” Fayanju casually answered. Now it was personal...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mental Champs Get Physical | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...look fourteen again? Suddenly, all the angst and agony of my early teens came flooding back. Putting aside the nightmarish aesthetic trifecta of braces, pimples and school uniforms, there were also the socially horrific memories of gym class, trigonometry and that embarrassingly cliché infatuation with Tom Cruise. The fountain of youth may have been discovered—and bottled at just $80 a pop—but I was not ready to partake of the elixir (or rather, the exfoliant). I left the launch with the face I walked in with plus a bag of ridiculously expensive beauty products...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life In Vogue | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...find your faith? Zhang: When I was on the run in northeast China, I found my way to a village, and came to hide in the house of a Christian farmer ... He would ask me to read the Bible to him. His Bible was handwritten?transcribed with a fountain pen. I read him the Gospel of John. He treated me well, shared with me the little he had?even killed his chicken for me to eat ... It was at that time that I started believing there was a God in this world. Because if there wasn't, then this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pastor in Exile | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...golf course alone absorbs half a million gallons a day, water that would otherwise flow downstream and feed the Colorado River. "We created an artificial environment here, and we are trying to keep it," says city manager Robert Ledger. "The water we don't use ends up in a fountain in Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dust Bowl | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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