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Born in 1852 and run over by a Barcelona tram 74 years later in 1926, Gaudí would probably be embarrassed by so much fuss. A vegetarian bachelor who washed in cold water and wore tattered suits, Gaudí avoided publicity. He left few personal papers, most of his architectural records were destroyed during the Civil War, and there are only a handful of black-and-white photos of him, which can't show the intense blue of his eyes. When not at building sites Gaudí spent much of his time kneeling in prayer. But he would probably have...
Norwegians say they are born with skis on their feet. No wonder the rest of the world has a hard time catching them. Without fuss and fanfare, the sparsely populated Scandinavian country has won more Winter Olympic medals - 240 before arriving at Salt Lake City - than any other competitor, and that includes the Alpine powerhouses of Austria and Switzerland, and the huge teams from the U.S. and Germany...
...Pelletier edged out the Russian pair Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze last spring in Vancouver to became world champions. In that matchup the Russians skated a nearly clean program while Sale singled a double Axel. But with the Russians coming off a weak season, no one raised a fuss. This year Sale and Pelletier trotted out Orchid, a new high-concept routine (he played the stem, she the blooming flower) but on the eve of the Olympics settled on Love Story, based on the 1970 love-and-death melodrama, which first enchanted judges back...
...enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail. "All of a sudden, I felt terribly embarrassed," he wrote. So embarrassed that, hoping to evade responsibility, he begged his co-conspirator in Hindi, "Kidnap me also." His cohort growled, "Don't kick up a fuss." And they carried out the crime...
...affordable. The battered New Taiwan dollar makes a dinner bill resemble the tab for a light snack in Hong Kong. Getting there doesn't break the bank, either: I found a weekend package from Hong Kong for less than $200 and set off after work to see what the fuss is about...