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...rain began as a light drizzle. By the time we had visited the final stop on our ice cream odyssey through Harvard Square, the open skies bled a full-fledged downpour...
...SCENE LOOKS AS TIMELESS as one from the Odyssey: billowing sails, hulls slicing through salt spray, sunburned crewmen pulling at ropes and squinting into wind. But if the image is classic, the men competing in the America's Cup final this week know victory will owe more to expensive high-tech wizardry than to the art of ancient mariners. "National technology is at the heart of the competition," says John Marshall, boatbuilder and head of the Partnership for America's Cup Technology. "It's been a technology contest since 1851." That year a newly designed schooner called America launched...
Harris' execution was scheduled for this week but may be delayed by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge. Assuming that California clears away this last obstacle, the execution would be the state's first in 25 years. It would also end Harris' 13-year odyssey through state and federal courts. His case broke no new legal ground: he was an adult at the time of the crime, and race was not a factor. Neither was his mental condition -- until January. His attorney, Howard Friedman, told Wilson in the final clemency appeal that newly discovered evidence showed that...
...enjoy. At Euro Disney, the Pritzker-prizewinning Frank Gehry designed the nightclub center called Festival Disney, whose plaza is guarded by giant towers of oxidized silver and bronze-colored stainless steel under a star-studded canopy of lights. It's as if the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey had dressed up and gone out to strut...
...verge of the big bust, though, Stevens assignment is terminated in the name of political expediency. Disillusioned--but fabulously wealthy--Stevens makes a desperate choice, and his ongoing odyssey through ghetto drug culture becomes a search for meaning and redemption, a chance to make a difference...