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...began a long distance relationship nurtured by Southwest Airlines vouchers and cell phones with free long distance. “It was sad at times,” Millican says of being apart from Mansur, adding that he never doubted their relationship would last. They will tie the knot June...
...China, and its abundant heritage, offers boundless inspiration," says Stanislas de Quercize, president and CEO of Cartier, whose company this April launched a new line, Le Baiser du Dragon (The Kiss of the Dragon) with designs invoking Chinese openwork screens and fen ling wind bells. Cartier's diamond wish-knot pendant has already sold out. Sophie Albou, founder of Paul & Joe, a French clothing line, claims Japan as the primary influence for her most recent collection: "People always gravitate to Japanese floral prints, as the colors are so beautiful." --By Isabel C. Gonzalez
...cars, but which also implies that movement is impossible. "Izdiham!" protest the drivers of patched-together taxis by way of explanation for their refusal to go to your destination or their insistence on dropping you off halfway there. At every intersection or roundabout, cars are ensnared in a Gordian knot that is painstakingly untangled by volunteers, who epitomize one of the defining paradoxes of Iraqi society: the conflict between "faudha" and "nidham," or chaos and order...
...feel it percolating in your gut as the guy behind the deli counter serves someone who has waited less time than you. It rises to form a knot of bile as you scamper after a bus that left 10 seconds too soon. It chokes you as your boss--say, an editor at the magazine you've slaved at for years--cuts your perfect movie review in half, adds lame jokes...and then, to compound the injury, sends you out to get her coffee, at that same rotten deli...
...lost the first set of his match against Darius Craton but battled back to knot the match at one-all. In the third set, Craton broke Chu to make the score 5-4, held serve to tie the score at five and had double break point against the Crimson sophomore...