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There's a lot at stake. A high score on the Putnam can fast-track a young mathematician's career, and a team win can put a math department on the map. Currently, Harvard is at the tail end of a dynasty of Michael Jordanian proportions, with 13 first-place finishes since 1985. At one point, Harvard teams went 8-0. "Once Harvard began its roll, the most talented high school students in the U.S. started to overwhelmingly choose to go to Harvard," says Vakil. "As a result, the undergraduate math program at Harvard has become the hardest...
...sniper spending time with a kid who calls himself his stepson in the ickiest father-son bonding since Bill Wyman's son nearly became his dad's stepfather-in-law, and a college kid who was planting mailbox bombs in order to make a happy face on the map. A happy face? What year was that kid living in? We call them emoticons now. In Britain, the worst royal scandal anyone could scare up this year was over a rape that allegedly occurred in 1989. And a gang of thugs wanted to kidnap Victoria Beckham, a.k.a. Posh Spice, now - that...
...soprano roles in Mozart operas like Le Nozze di Figaro and La Clemenza di Tito, and she performs regularly in recitals and concerts around the world. Opera guru Christopher Raeburn, who was among the first to spot Kirchschlager's talent - he also helped put mezzo Cecilia Bartoli on the map - calls her Octavian in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier the finest he has heard. "I saw my first Rosenkavalier in 1938 and Angelika is the greatest." Kirchschlager nearly came to Covent Garden eight years ago in Figaro, but had to cancel when she became pregnant. To bring Sophie...
...peasant bike," which offers an unwelcome reminder of Soviet domination. But the foreign devotees don't care. "I may never get a Vietnamese girlfriend riding this bike," says Minsk enthusiast Digby Greenhalgh. "But I can get up any mountain." Armed with a Minsk, a tool kit and a good map, few places are out of reach for the adventurous weekend warrior; those with a week can take in an astonishing array of landscapes and locations of historic and cultural interest. The "Grand Loop" first leads to Sapa, a mist-shrouded hill station 350 kilometers north of Hanoi, surrounded by hill...
...Every map in the world has the exact same scale. Think about...