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...favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
...fears, however, were overblown. For the most part, Europeans greeted the launch with good humor and even civic-mindedness. The debut of more than 10 billion new bank notes, legal tender from Lisbon to Helsinki and from Dublin to Athens, has given 300 million Europeans their first true experience of union. (Britain, the most significant holdout, is keeping the pound for now.) An Austrian who stood in a long bank queue to get her first walletful of euros could go home and see Spaniards doing the same thing on TV. The much photographed lines outside some banks were strictly voluntary...
...closes out her final academic semester—which she must complete after leaving Harvard last fall to compete in the Sydney Olympics—she will have the freedom to build experience in the major international meets. When she placed fifth at the IAAF Indoor World Championships at Lisbon in March at a peak height of 1.93 meters, she placed some of the blame on her failure to adapt to an unexpected ramp that interfered with her approach. At Edmonton, the IAAF reported that a strong headwind, which picked up as the bar was raised to 1.94 meters, made...
Unlike Taylor, Gyorffy has proven herself in major international competition in the past. In her highest world place ever, Gyorffy took fifth at the IAAF Indoor Championships at Lisbon in March...
Because the Lisbon trip conflicted with the NCAA Indoors, Gyorffy was unable to defend her title, leaving the door open for someone else to win. That winner happened to be Harvard sophomore Kart Siilats, an Estonian transfer student. Siilats won the title in dramatic fashion, clearing the winning height of 1.86 meters while facing elimination...