Word: nicks
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...public and private projects. Meanwhile, according to a report released last year by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, urban incomes have grown so rapidly that they now exceed rural incomes by more than 300% on average. "China is in the robber-baron stage of its economic development," says Nick Young, editor of the Beijing-based China Development Brief, a quarterly journal on civil society. "People are dispossessed, and that causes social strains...
...doubles matches were extremely competitive, as two of them reached tiebreakers. Co-captain Jonathan Chu and freshman Ashwin Kumar, playing the top doubles match, defeated Andrew Formanczyk and Nick Rink...
Freshman Dan Nguyen lost a marathon match to Nick Rinks in the Crimson’s only defeat of the morning. After Rinks grabbed a 6-3 victory in the first set, Nguyen struck back with a 6-3 second-set win. Both players refused to blink in the seemingly endless third set, but eventually Rinks persevered, winning...
...tulle petticoat. When celebrities do wear Valvo--Catherine Zeta-Jones; Beyonce, to meet Nelson Mandela in South Africa--they trade on his style, not his name. "There's an incredible simplicity to the lines but an impact and glamour you don't find a lot of places," says stylist Nick Steele, who has dressed Claire Danes and Radha Mitchell in Valvo's looks. Valvo, who spends four months of each year traveling to meet current and future clients, is in no danger of losing touch. "It's not like I'm in some ivory tower," he says. "There's just...
...painful it is to see so little of one's children. The six men who've shown up at the community center this sweltering February evening are a diverse bunch in manner and circumstance, but they're bonded - forever, they say - by this common ache. Dressed all in black, Nick looks pale and tired; the light behind his eyes has gone out. Divorced for eight years, he is entitled to see his 11-year-old daughter every second weekend, but says his ex-wife has devised tactics to block even that paltry contact. He says his blood pressure has soared...