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...Lebua certainly knows all about hosting lavish feasts. Last year, the hotel organized an event it modestly titled "The Epicurean Masters of the World," a Michelin-starred extravaganza at a cost per head of 1 million baht (around $28,000). Despite the hefty check, the dinner event was fully booked - and it received its share of official criticism, coming at a moment when Thailand's then-ruling military junta was unveiling an economic policy based, in part, on scaling back ostentatious shows of wealth. The dinner also mystified many ordinary Thais, who are used to dining on some...
Agosta, a sophomore forward, is a flat out scoring machine and an argument could be made that she has the most natural talent of the three finalists. She led the nation with 1.21 goals per game, scoring 60 points in total...
...ranked fifth in the NCAA with 1.82 points per game and third with 1.06 assists per game, and the only reason she didn’t rank higher was because she did exactly what her team needed her to do to win—instead of frantically trying to create scoring chances out of nowhere to pad her stats...
...Crimson was given some positive news to take back home with it.Junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt won the Patty Kazmaier Award, given annually to the best player in women’s college hockey.Vaillancourt led Harvard with 26 goals and 36 assists, was fifth in the nation with 1.82 points per game, and tied for second with 1.06 assists per game.“She’s relentless in her preparation and she’s relentless in her performance,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “She’s such a competitor...
...would net between 18 and 20 birds per hunt, each one - barely meaty enough for a single serving - netting him about $30. But the birds are not poached to feed people who would otherwise go hungry, he says. "It's more of a vice, not for the people who live near the swamp, but the bigger people," restaurant owners in the rural south that serve it illegally and wealthy connoisseurs who have come to view eating scarlet ibis as a status symbol. (In 2001 the chairman of the country's airports authority was arrested for poaching scarlet ibis...