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...what can stop Harvard? A rising star such as Penn’s Jewel Clark, the physicality of a tough Brown team or the impact of transfer students at Columbia and Cornell? For a team that returns at the top, there is only one automatic route to failure—complacency. However, the Crimson’s nonconference schedule will not allow an apathetic team to leave the court without severely bruised egos and a giant mar on a potentially legendary season...
...single visits a stranger's pad for a surprise home renovation and, just maybe, a little somethin'-somethin' afterward. A silly idea, sure, but what better way to preview your future than to see what your prospective mate, given the chance, would do to your piles of CD jewel boxes? The eyes may be the window to the soul. But so are the window treatments. --By James Poniewozik
...carve-up of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, London thought that the best way to secure routes to India, the jewel in its imperial crown, was to dominate Mesopotamia. To that end, the treaty at the close of the war cobbled together Iraq from three Ottoman provinces, one Kurdish, one Sunni Muslim and another Shi'ite Muslim. The British moved in under a League of Nations mandate. They didn't have a clue. In 1920 a full-scale revolt broke out. By one account, Britain lost 450 in the rebellion; other sources put the figure...
...part of Ireland--its lush countryside--is on vivid display just a 30-minute drive (or bus ride) away at Powerscourt, a 14th century castle whose gardens unfold among the Wicklow Mountains. Renovated and expanded in the 17th century by the English Marshall of Ireland, the castle is a jewel of Georgian formality that has served as movie backdrop for Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Even if it's raining--and by St. Patrick, it's likely to be--spend some time along the trails winding through the 45-acre castle gardens, the equal...
...Talk to Her, she reminds men that every woman is "somebody's sister." Slow Down warns against moving too fast with "your hands in the air and your feet on the gas." The music, guitar folk with a dash of hip-hop rhythm, is equally predictable. She makes Jewel seem outrageous...