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...about the circus, but he has no idea what nuances are involved in the double, or even single axel toe-loop jump,” said Neyfakh. “I’m so sick of his attitude.” ALMOST THERE: 1 week. 6 hours. The lean, toned members of the FM dance team gathered over low-fat blueberry muffins at Dunkin’ Donuts to plan for the final stretch...
...legions of Felipe’s eaters have come to know and love. b. good, by contrast, is more health-conscious. “We want to take traditional fast food and make it a little bit better and healthier,” says Olinto. That means baked fries, lean meat, and whole-wheat buns. You pay more for the privilege. At b. good, a typical check will run $8, but only $5 at Flat Patties. For Steven T. Cupps ’09 and Evan J. O’Brien ’09, that is the bottom line...
DIED. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, 95, smart, sensitive 1930s movie actress turned grande dame of the London and New York stage; in Oxfordshire, England. Although she made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime...
...possibility that horrifies Watson. People come from around the world to her Toolern Vale property an hour outside Melbourne, and pay to stay the night just to hear her 16 dingoes howl at dusk. During the day the lean, aloof animals, most of them the pale sand color of the desert dingo, lie in the sun in their high-fenced enclosure, snuffling and backing away when a stranger arrives. Having bred them for 20 years, Watson's home is full of photos and paintings of dingoes, but her argument for their protection is based less on sentiment than...
...since "the government" in this case is run by the Republican Party, the immigration issue also holds some peril for Bush. If his big effort on immigration ends in a stalemate--which is quite possible, since House Republicans lean more conservative on this issue and Senate Republicans, more liberal--Bush would yet again look weak. So far, he has not been able to bridge his party's business leaders, who need a steady supply of workers willing to do hard labor, and its cultural conservatives, who fear that something essential about the American character is vanishing under the crosscurrents...