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...University recognized the recipients at an Annenberg Hall banquet last night, which featured a cello performance by Sarah M. Carter ’04 and a meal including jumbo shrimp salad, horseradish-encrusted filet of beef and milk chocolate mousse...
Lovers of fish and shellfish flock to Canton's Seafood Restaurant, close to the Greenway Plaza office complexes. There the fish tanks aren't just decorative; they hold the live rockfish, black cod and jumbo crab waiting to be fried whole, baked in spicy salt or steamed with a simple but powerful ginger-scallion sauce...
...readers that they seem so eager to hear? His Zen-like message, reminiscent of that of hippie guru Ram Dass, is that happiness is achieved by living in the present: "In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve." But the book, awash in spiritual mumbo jumbo ("The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind"), will be unhelpful for those looking for practical advice. Of course, Meg Ryan loved it, and Cher says it changed her life. Hooray for Hollywood. --By Andrea Sachs
...start with mortgages. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond has been falling all year and last week hit a 44year low of 3.55% before ending the week higher. Mortgage rates have followed, and for conforming mortgages (those under this year's jumbo threshold of $322,700), the average 30-year fixed rate last week sank as low as 5.58%. That's down from just over 6% in October, reports mortgage-research firm HSH Associates. Deals on fixed-rate 15-year mortgages are even sweeter, having cracked the 5% barrier for the first time...
...rise. The judge enters--she's 25, loquacious and the cutest jurist her show's producers could find. This Chinese Judge Judy is deciding if a Beijing man can keep a donkey in his apartment. This is what News Corp.--which entertains America with dwarfs pulling jumbo jets--is bringing to the Middle Kingdom. The company is reformatting hit shows from abroad and adding "rock-'n'-roll energy" to Chinese TV, says Jamie Davis, head of News Corp. in China. There's Wanted! In China to help catch murderers and Late Night Talk with a Letterman knock-off reading...