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...engineer had swerved his 100cc Honda Wave motorcycle to avoid a bicycle and crashed into a concrete lane divider near his home. His bleary-eyed brother stared blankly at the widening pool of blood on the sheet beneath Hieu's head as the doctor explained the family's options: hook him up to life support, or take him home to die. Either way, he would never wake...
McPhee measured the range of the Princeton forward’s peripheral vision—both horizontal and vertical—and found it to be vastly wider than average. He detailed the five distinct motions in Bradley’s hook shot. He crafted an in-depth biographical sketch of someone who spent time working for the Orange Key Society and doing thesis research. Imagine a hundred-page volume about the basketball player or Crimson Key Society member in your entryway and the thought seems all the more astounding...
...that ease is absent for frustratingly long periods. The album opens with Free, a nice enough tune about overcoming your demons that Hill characteristically undersings. The first sign of trouble is the title track, a big, diva-ish song that she strains to pull off. It works because the hook is a winner--"Could you cry a little/Lie just a little"--but Hill seems very ill at ease when she's required to blow away the swirling chorus at the heart of the song...
...Social unrest, militant unions, wrongheaded economic policy and rapacious local businessmen out to gain by hook or by crook contribute to what global investors call "political risk." It's something Indonesia has in spades. In June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. was declared bankrupt by a domestic court despite the fact that the operation was solvent and profitable. The inexplicable decision, made because Manulife didn't pay a dividend to shareholders in 1999, was later overturned, but not before the case received international publicity. Partly...
...minutes later, the girl turned to him and said, “You know, I’ve always wanted to hook up with a Harvard...