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...over a month since the waters retreated and then advanced with such deadly effect, Herman M?ller, 41, a truck driver from Germany, is sitting on Patong beach and having, he says, "a very nice holiday." He's not alone. Hundreds of plastic deck chairs line the sand in two neat rows. Local hawkers do a steady trade supplying beer and tanning lotion to the crowd, while, behind them, kneeling on bamboo mats, masseuses cheerily press their palms into the backs of heavyset men for $8 an hour. On the beachfront, more holidaymakers pile into caf?s to order pizza and hamburgers...
That included the final score, which pushed the lead to 4-0 with 10:56 remaining in the game. On that play, Vaillancourt knocked in a neat one-timer off a feed from Corriero, her 12th goal of the season...
Harvard’s shooters knocked down the open looks, making a neat half of its scoring opportunities in the first half. The offensive attack on the night was balanced, as the Crimson had four players reach double figures, including Giovacchini, who added a season-high nine assists, five rebounds and four steals in an impressive all-around performance...
Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle) is a smooth and accommodating guy. Neat and trim in his habitual jacket and tie, he's a black man managing a luxury hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, a decade ago, making friends and doing favors across racial and national boundaries. He knows when an obsequious word or a proffered bottle of single-malt Scotch will do him the most good with corrupt local officialdom. And he is doing his best to ignore the rising tensions between his country's ruling Hutu tribe (of which he is a member) and the rebellious Tutsi...
...Sherlock Holmes, although Chabon never names him. Chabon's Holmes is long past his Baker Street prime: at 89, he has become a frail, eccentric, beekeeping retiree. Mystery comes looking for the aging detective in the form of a mute boy, 9, and his pet parrot (the symmetry is neat but not too: a boy who can't speak and a bird that can). Before long, the parrot is missing, a man is dead, and Holmes is back in the game...