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...rated new show last season is like “Survivor” for the business world, where the winner gets to head up one of Trump’s myriad corporations...
...silent, brooding local fisherman who exudes immense sexual charisma. This irritates Kanai, who tries to prove to Piya that talkative, urbane men aren't short on sexual charisma, either. The three of them head off on a boat to find a few dolphins. Sexual tension piles up, and myriad facts about the wondrous history of the Indian swampland are learned by all. Just when you think Piya and Kanai and the silent, brooding, vaguely Conradian Fokir will wander up and down the swamp forever, tigers begin to appear along the swamp, warning you that a climax is coming; it arrives...
...muscle can no longer repair the tiny abrasions that come from normal wear and tear, and begins to waste away. The disease mimics an exaggerated form of the stress that highly trained athletes inflict on their muscles. To restore the balance in favor of regeneration, researchers are isolating the myriad growth factors and other biochemical compounds that regulate the musclemaking factory...
...huge spectacle, especially one that is now burdened by the baggage of global terrorism. Montreal played host to the 1976 Games with an unfinished Olympic stadium; the Atlanta Games never solved their traffic and technology woes. Even Sydney, lauded as the paragon Olympics just four years ago, had myriad preparation problems--not the least of them weak ticket sales--that were soon lost in the euphoria of the competition and the welcoming atmosphere. For all host cities, the first scorekeeping of the Games is how much remains undone before the sporting events commence. And, yes, Athens seems to have lapped...
...America in a perilous time. The issues the candidates are debating—budget deficits, health care costs and, most of all, the terrorist threat—will set the agenda not just for this election, but for years to come. And yet again, Harvard—despite our myriad political passions—seemed reluctant to look beyond itself...