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...some 3,000 medals. Each of them will be searching for gold. Barring that, they'll begrudgingly take silver or bronze. For while outwardly they may profess joy in the spirit of athletic competition, inwardly they all desire the same thing: a hunk of metal around their neck...
...Evelyn (Maria Bello, sporting an English accent of varying plumminess) and their grown son Alex (Luke Ford). After their last escapade, Rick and Evelyn have sworn off derring-do; she writes books about the good old days while he goes fly-fishing and gets a hook stuck in his neck. Their love life is a comedy of missed opportunities, of derring-don'ts. When the British government asks them to deliver a valuable document to Shanghai, they jump at the chance to throw off the sedate life and immerse themselves in the one thing that makes them feel alive: peril...
...over as the company's director, did the same, casting her out of the corps in his production of Raymonda. Now she is the darling of choreographers on the international scene: Rudi van Dantzig, William Forsythe, Lucinda Childs. Says Nureyev: ''She has extraordinary physical attributes, long legs, a long neck. She has musicality. And what is most important, she glows on stage.'' All accurate. But he adds, ''At 21, she already has nerves of steel.'' Not quite so, according to Guillem. Before a performance she suffers from le trac, or stage fright: ''No more legs. I go limp, and panic...
...Italian hilltop city of Perugia, her crystal-blue eyes glancing anxiously toward a photographer's camera. The 20-year-old American exchange student with the Ivory-soap complexion was on her way to jail, charged in the murder of her British roommate, who was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in the flat they shared in the picturesque Umbrian capital...
...Whereas Oodle excels in technology, Kijiji is the only general-purpose classified site that is catching up with Craigslist in terms of actual listings. Three years ago, Kijiji didn't even exist. Today it is the top online classified service in France, Germany and Taiwan. It's also neck and neck with Craigslist in Canada. Combined with eBay's other international classified hubs - which include Marktplaats in the Netherlands and Gumtree in the United Kingdom - eBay's portfolio of classifieds actually get more unique visitors around the globe than Craigslist. (As eBay's core auction business has slowed, its classifieds...