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...Rome she gains 23 lbs.--you could put on weight just reading her description of authentic, weapons-grade Italian pizza--and learns the mystical art of bel far niente, "the beauty of doing nothing." In India she studies meditation at an ashram. In Bali she imbibes the wisdom of her medicine man, and her newfound serenity is tested by a Brazilian swain named Felipe...
...common dangers facing service members in Iraq have helped close the gender gap. In today's Army, nobody gallantly holds the humvee door open for a female, and a woman is expected to carry as much (Swenson's full gear weighs 115 lbs.) and to shoot as well as a man. Women service members refer to themselves either as "combat Barbies"--those who fight the losing battle of trying to look pretty in Iraq's sandstorms and winter sludge--or "hooah girls," named after the motivational grunt of obedience that soldiers give their superiors. "We females do combat ops," says...
...face the Lions and Duke on Saturday.HARVARD 18, BROWN 18; HARVARD 32, SACRED HEART 12The Crimson won five bouts, including three by major decisions, and managed to tie Brown (7-7-1, 2-5-1 EIWA) in the first match on Saturday despite having to forfeit at 125 lbs. Harvard then dominated the Pioneers (6-9) by winning eight of the nine contested bouts.Both matches at Brown began with the 174 lbs. bouts. The Bears opened with a decision win in which Matt Gevelinger defeated freshman Wesley Walker, 8-6. Freshman Louis Caputo (184 lbs.) put Harvard on the board...
...compared] to the 'incomparable' [Kirsten] Flagstad herself. The debutante: 41-year-old Birgit Nilsson, whose appearance in a new production of Tristan und Isolde touched off the kind of debut furor the Met's Wagnerians have not witnessed in a quarter-century ... A solid (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.) and imposing woman, dramatic soprano Nilsson ... displayed a big, flashing, vibrant voice that galvanized her audience and conveyed an immediate sense of the turbulent passions that animate the role [of Isolde] ... Apparently a more severe critic of herself than some of Manhattan's reviewers, Soprano Nilsson said later: 'After...
...take the forfeits away and we wrestled 18-18 against Penn, and they’re a good team. We had some big individual match-ups against Penn and we won every one of them. In fact, we were in that bout all the way up to [the 197 lbs. match], so I think we’re doing the right things.”PENN 30, HARVARD 18; AMERICAN 24, HARVARD 19In dual meets against No. 22 Penn and American Saturday at the MAC, Harvard (2-7, 1-4 EIWA) held its own despite Preston’s absence...