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...explanation of the differences among silver (unaged), reposado (aged at least two months) and anejo (aged at least a year) is only the start. Join the club for $10, sample 35 pure-agave brands (no more than three per visit), and you will get an oak-framed "tequila master's" diploma and a T shirt. But to attain a "Ph.D." in tequila studies, you must taste another 35 brands and pass a 70-question written test...
...Bradby's nimble crime novel The Master of Rain (Bantam Press; 479 pages) sinks readers into the sullied lives of China's colonial nabobs, leading us through the brothels, country clubs, crime labs, opium dens and dance halls of 1920s Shanghai?where "you can get heroin on room service in all the best hotels" and every building along the Bund is "a projection of American or European power...
...quickly," I replied. I was not trying to be mean, merely pointing out that young master Kim had picked up his flag in an ill-advised nonce, even as officials were quite obviously comparing notes at mid-ice. (His coach, Jun Myung-Kyu, took the postgame rap for getting the flag out there so fast: "I thought he had won.") There was about this tableau the air of a boy who had been bad, who knew he had been bad, and who was trying to put the misdemeanor behind him as fast as possible, hoping no one had noticed - hoping...
...hear the howls from Korea even now, carrying across the Pacific and swooping low over Northern California before resounding off the Wasatch range. Spare me, and spare young master Ohno. "I feel bad for the Korean," said my neighbor in the press section. "He was already taking his victory...
...classmate that will be back next year, however, is Canadian forward Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03. While the United States’ master plan called for a full season of centralized training last year, Canada only trained together for a week prior to the World Championships. That allowed Botterill and Canadian linemate Tammy Shewchuk ’00-’01 to stay at Harvard and propel the Crimson to the inaugural NCAA Frozen Four...