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...killer stalking Tansy look-alikes. The murderer can be spotted within a few paragraphs of the title page, but provides a diversion from a suddenly at-one-with-Asia Tansy looking down upon the "tourists" in Bangkok or musing with unconscious irony upon "deluded Westerners" at the base of Mount Everest. Barr even includes Tansy's rambling e-mails home; most people don't want to read those from their friends...
Down 38-22 after shooting 36 percent from the field and nine percent from beyond the arc, Yale was able to mount a torrid comeback to open the second half by converting on 61 percent of its shots while holding Harvard scoreless for a seven-minute stretch...
...committed by both students and faculty members, and when they are caught, they are punished. The University of Notre Dame’s head football coach, George O’Leary, resigned in December after it was revealed that he had falsely claimed academic and athletic achievements. Last August, Mount Holyoke College suspended history professor Joseph Ellis for lying about his service in Vietnam. Punishment should accompany academic dishonesty, and Ambrose is no exception, even if he is a widely respected historian, author and World War II expert...
...would mistake this northern town, with its neocommunist concrete structures and rows of karaoke bars, for a terrestrial paradise, but nearby is the stunning Songzanlin Monastery, which could as easily have sprung from Hilton's imagination as that of a Tibetan architect. And Deqin?especially the majestic, glacier-draped Mount Kagbo, Yunnan's highest peak at 6,740 m?lives up to its billing. A steep scramble up the mountain's flank will bring hikers to the foot of the glacier, which lies at the heart of Shangri-la, according to the glossiest of the tourist brochures...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The Wrath of Mount Nyiragongo Lava poured down the slopes of Mount Nyiragongo and through the eastern Congolese city of Goma, destroying everything in its path and sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for their lives. U.N. officials put the death toll at about 50, as displaced people lined roads into Rwanda and gathered in the town of Gisenyi. As the 3,469-m volcano continued to spew molten rock, earthquakes shook the area and a cloud of smoke hung in the air. The lava flow ended in Lake Kivu, on the border...