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...pace was moved up a gear again for the rest of the evening with a few brief ballads in between to cool the audience down. The talent of the fiddlers combined with an accordion, a guitar and a bouzouki managed to achieve an almost inhuman speed in most of their jigs, which made this a dynamic performance...
...novice rock climber). Harvard Mountaineering Club member Neal K. Gupta ’07 says walk-ins are “totally welcome.” Fellow member Lucas T. Laurensen ’06 notes that “beginners are totally welcome to use our gear to decide if they want to buy their own.” Aside from rock climbing, the Mountaineering Club headquarters also offers a beautifully furnished common room, decorated with huge black and white photos of the back country, old fashioned snowshoes and bookshelves packed with bound editions of the club?...
There's a good reason that the terms birdie and eagle are part of the golf lexicon and the word peacock is not. "Let's be honest: golf clothing is pretty dorky," says Craig Tanner, CEO and founder of Urban Golf Gear (UGG), an "athleisure" apparel brand that combines performance technology with urban fashion flair. Tanner, who started the company in 1997, figured there would be a bigger audience for golf clothes when he saw Tiger Woods score a victory in just his third amateur tournament in 1996. "I knew he was going to go pro, and I knew golf...
...just for the fairway. At Christian Dior, Galliano--who has never picked up a club in his life--has created a line of offbeat golf clothing and accessories, including a pink-and-yellow Argyle-patterned golf bag and matching knickers. Galliano has stressed that although all the Dior gear is performance quality, it's also meant to be worn on the street...
...that 13% of British Muslims surveyed said further terror attacks on the U.S. would be justified. More moderate Muslims realize they're in a fight for the soul of their religion, and whatever their frustrations with Blair and Bush, last week's arrests caused them to shift up a gear. In Luton, where a letter from the Muslim Council of Britain to imams calling for cooperation with police was being widely discussed, one conservative young Muslim said he and his friends were talking to potential al-Muhajiroun recruits, trying to show them its understanding of Islam was false. And Anwar...