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...ladies' man. He knows how to attract them and keep them at a distance. Having been burned in an earlier affair, he is loath to reveal to them the ache of lost love at his core. Yet he needs a woman; he seems happy only when he can nod off, in a taxi, on a kind lady's shoulder. He sounds like a weary cynic, but underneath he is like every Wong Kar-wai character: a melancholy romantic. And he has the bruises to prove...
This weekend also saw a bit of a lineup change. Sophomore Tom Stapleton started in place of classmate David Williams at defense, while senior Zach Chandis got the nod over senior Pablo Koe-Krompecher at midfield. Freshman forward Michael Fucito started in the place of an injured Charles Altchek, who sprained his right MCL last week. Teammates said that they were unsure if he was going to play tomorrow against Maine...
...JAMIE FOXX IN RAY In the battle of movies about 1950s rock stars, this one on Ray Charles beat out Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin in Beyond the Sea. The kudos Foxx received could presage an Oscar nod...
...similar nod to the eco-ethic, Hacienda Pinilla haciendapinilla.com) a 4,500-acre resort and residential community on the Nicoya Peninsula, will maintain extensive tracts of its terrain undeveloped. Hidden in the heart of cattle country--Costa Rica's Wild West--this tropical dry forest is inhabited by dense populations of howler monkeys, iguanas and birds. Guests who take advantage of the resort's seaside golf course can expect to encounter plenty of the local wildlife, including a boa that has taken up residence in a heavily wooded patch of trees by the 14th hole. This has come...
...last week Fidelity Investments, run by Edward C. (Ned) Johnson III, right, cut expenses on five of its index mutual funds. The move, which follows other fee cuts, like the elimination of many funds' sales charges, was a direct swipe at index-fund leader Vanguard Group and a nod to the increasing popularity of exchange-traded funds--low-cost baskets of stock that track particular indexes and trade on stock exchanges. Expenses on the five funds, which are pegged to such benchmarks as the S&P 500 or the Wilshire 5000, are now just 0.10% of assets annually. Fidelity sells...