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...expedition in the Sahara. There he meets Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas), the cool, sure wife of a member of the team. Almasy is aroused and troubled by Katharine; even dancing, he stalks her furtively, as if she's not supposed to know she's in his arms. Almasy, a hoarder of his own secrets, may want to possess but not be known; Katharine may be tired of her cheery husband (Colin Firth), and she's itchy to return to her seaside home. None of this matters when they fall in love...
...Books. Discounting the relatively pathetic selection offered on its two lower floors, the Coop is still heralded as the textbook king (a.k.a. monopolist textbook hoarder). Why? Harvard gives the Coop a monopoly on the needed texts for all of its classes, except when the professor chooses to purchase elsewhere. Wouldn't it make sense to supply reading lists and class enrollments to all the local bookstores so that students would benefit from price competition...
...anchor only the lyric theater could provide. Of the thousand or so songs he composed, the only familiar one not written for a show or movie was The Last Time I Saw Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just a few bars of Till the Clouds Roll By and presto! it becomes Look for the Silver Lining. Invert the melody, depress the tempo and voila! the Cotton Blossom theme from Show Boat is alchemized into Ol' Man River...
Having tripled the number of commuter-admits, the admissions office was portrayed as a heartless hoarder of Harvard's treasures. But had the school done wrong' It would appear...
While bullion buffs have been ringing up spectacular profits, Dallas Megamillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, 53, should have been quietly humming Silver Threads Among the Gold. As the nation's paramount silver hoarder. Hunt and at least one brother, William Herbert Hunt, have amassed a new Comstock Lode. Over the past nine months they have earned an estimated $2 billion to $4 billion, and one former business associate sets the Hunts' silver holdings at 100 million oz. Even for a man who could play Monopoly with real money, the silver boom is stunning...