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...label, M.C.L. Design. On a trip to New York City last year, he met with buyers from Bergdorf Goodman and landed a coveted spot at the luxury retailer. His colorful enamel bangles, earrings and cocktail rings encrusted with gemstones, ranging in price from $120 to $12,000, were an instant hit and have been reordered nine times...
Glendon says that Rove's call last summer was a "total surprise" but she didn't even need a moment to mull the offer of the ambassadorship. "Why sure, I'd love to do that!," she recalled, with a hearty laugh, was her instant response to Rove. Becoming the leading American government representative at the Vatican has required Glendon to give up her post at the Pontifical academy. She denied there was any conflict of interest in having served the Vatican in the past. "Like others I have done volunteer work for the Church; mine has been as an academic...
...singles play, the Crimson looked for an instant response, and it came in the form of three victories in the top three positions. At No. 2, Peterzan defeated Katya Mirnovea 6-4, 6-0, while Ko took three sets to dispatch her opponent 1-6, 7-6, 7-6 at No. 1. Freshman Samantha Rosekrans secured a tough 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 win at No. 3 to give Harvard hope of victory...
...cannot see fast enough to pick out the details of a pass thrown in a football game. The mind cannot recover a childhood birthday beyond an impressionistic blur. In our technological age, what would we do without instant replay? In his debut novel “Beautiful Children,” Charles Bock confronts the problem of video’s power, using this subtext to focus on an underexposed subject: the roughly 1.5 million adolescents who flee their homes every year in North America. But despite its shimmering surface, Bock’s novel ultimately crumbles under the burden...
Often the simplest questions have the most interesting answers. A few winters back, I was sitting over a cup of instant hot chocolate in Reykjavík, Iceland, with a fellow American, Eric Weiner. He was in town researching a book about happiness, trying to get to the bottom of why Icelanders consistently say they are content in a country they have nicknamed the "Ice Cube." I happened to live on the Ice Cube at the time, but I was taken aback when Weiner asked me, point blank, "Are you happy here...