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...rampage leave Calleja's checking account? "I"m still in the hole, but I feel O.K. about my spending - kind of, sort of," she says. Since she works in the real estate business, her job isn't safe. Still, she says, "you just have to delete that from your mind." This week, she'll start a part-time tutoring job to make some cash on the side. "Bottom line, you just have to keep living your life," she says...
...many people know that Charles Dickens was an actor as well as a writer. A workaholic who was haunted by memories of his impoverished childhood, when he worked in a blacking factory, Dickens was never the most emotionally stable of men at the best of times, never mind at the worst. In 1857 his friend Wilkie Collins wrote a play about a failed Arctic expedition. Dickens became obsessed with it and, like a rapper who's tired of the recording studio, volunteered to play the role of the villain. Then he fell in love with his 18-year...
...funding is not new: the package, for example, includes $147 billion for reconstruction in areas of Sichuan province that were devastated by a 2008 earthquake, money that would have been spent in any event. But wherever you go in China now, you come across projects that boggle the mind. In late March, for example, the government began soliciting bids for the Hong Kong - Zhuhai - Macau highway, a bridge-and-tunnel complex 16.5 miles (26.6 km) long that will allow connections among 35 ports in the Pearl River Delta, the cradle of China's economic boom. When completed...
...propel themselves them into first place. This victory, said their leader and choreographer, Ashley Banjo, sends "a message that age, ethnicity, background is not important." As Diversity reprised their winning act in a snowstorm of confetti and a hail of applause, viewers across the country shared their exultation. Never mind talent - Britain's got pride...
...Texas A&M. Jones placed 28th in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 47.11, while Meyer finished 25th in the 1650-yard freestyle and 44th in the 500-yard freestyle, with times of 15:06.58 and 4:24.38, respectively.With these individual performances and team improvements in mind, the Crimson will look to make another run at Princeton in the coming season.—Staff writer Alexandra J. Mihalek can be reached at amihalek@fas.harvard.edu...