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...following week she visited Embry Rucker for the first time, carrying a brightpink shoulder bag that served as a magnet for the delighted children. They tugged at her jeans and pleaded to see what was inside the bag. Annina opened it and handed out markers, crayons and paper, enabling the children to make drawings that were poignant and sometimes chilling. For six months, Annina made weekly visits, often bringing along friends to help her play with, read to and tutor the children...
Ironically, Henry James' story about a woman with no advocates has been one of his most enduringly popular works. Even more perversely, the role of humble Catherine has been an award magnet for glamorous actresses, most famously in the case of Olivia de Havilland's Oscar winning work in the 1949 film adaptation The Heiress...
...five Argentines on the 39-member Warrenton-area polo team. The dashing "Argies" routinely attract adoring female groupies, and the relationship between the sexy polo pro and the shy heiress was nothing unusual. Villegas and Cummings met two years ago at the Willow Run Polo school, a magnet for the Argentine players, many of whom are boarded on farms owned by the people they call their patrones. Cummings was learning the game. Villegas was a handsome professional who inspired the students with his horsemanship. "They idolized him," says Willow Run owner Jean-Marie Turon. "I think she fell in love...
...William Pawluk, a former faculty member at Johns Hopkins, maintains that magnets stimulate red blood cells, which contain iron. "I placed a round bull's-eye magnet on a nurse's knee following a ski injury," he writes in a Web article. "The next morning she had a perfect bull's-eye pattern over her bruise...
...Barker Center planners hope that the cafe will be a place for people to meet. "[We] want the cafe to be a magnet to bring the departments in Barker together to interact more," said Elizabeth L. Randall, Capital Project Manager...