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...Kwan is the ice legend of her time and Cohen is the mesmerizing but mercurial rising star, then Hughes is the well-disciplined champion in training. Her ascent to Olympic contender in the past three years couldn't have been more methodical if it had been planned; each year she has bettered her rankings at both the national and the world championships. She covers the rink with more speed than Kwan and spins and jumps with more explosive energy. While Cohen does have the edge over Hughes in emotive prowess, Hughes is the more consistent skater...
...where I live. It’s convenient and cheap.” The drawback to any bus trip over flying, of course, is the added travel time. But that wasn’t a problem for Harkin. “We saw a bad movie—The Legend of Zorro, I think,” he says. “It made the trip much, much quicker.” Harkin, who traveled to Manhattan to visit friends for the weekend, looked into the Chinatown option but chose convenience over saving $10. “It just seemed...
...Helfer's "Careful," about becoming temporarily homeless after the WTC collapse, or more fanciful reactions to the events. Several of these have a curiously militaristic edge that makes the DC book the most politically conservative of the 9/11 projects. Bizarre on several levels, Marvel's emeritus editor and comics legend Stan Lee contributes a "lost" Aesop fable with a non-too-subtly-chosen "gentle and caring" elephant taking rampaging vengeance on some dastardly mice. 'Nuff said...
DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fisherman, thought to have inspired Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. The hard-drinking raconteur became a legend in Cojimar, where, in exchange for cash or rum, he regaled tourists with embellished reminiscences of Papa H., whose fishing boat he skippered for some 20 years...
Sales of PCs in China are expected to grow 20% this year, with most bought from the Legend Group, a homegrown computer company based in Beijing. Legend has benefited from distribution deals with many of China's state-owned companies and from its exclusive right to distribute popular Toshiba notebooks in China. But these two privileges will increasingly be in jeopardy as more companies gain entrance to the market...