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...time I bought it in 2000, the cartel controlled up to 75% of the world's rough diamonds. The most likely point of origin-statistically speaking-was the mine at Orapa in Botswana. But the symbol of my love also could have come from Russian Siberia or the Premier Mine in South Africa or from the war spoils of Angola. There was no way to trace its history, except to say De Beers' office in London was the probable point of transfer to America. The diamond easily outlasted my busted engagement, but retracing its trip from the mine...
...just a matter of whether I would actually do it and whether I prepared myself to give myself the best shot at it.”Ungar fenced well against league competition, but he had days when he was beatable. Still, he established himself as a premier epee fencer, earning All-Ivy second team honors.As postseason play approached, Ungar stepped it up to another level. He won a bronze medal at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, helping Harvard win the title. Less than 10 days later, Ungar won the NCAA Northeast Regional, clinching a berth in the national tournament...
...season with a hand injury and a concussion—forced Delaney-Smith to play many lineups with two to three freshmen. But Harvard’s youth was often more positive than negative, as freshman Katie Rollins asserted herself as one of the league’s premier post players.Rollins led the team in scoring with 10.8 points per game, while fellow freshman Emily Tay was the team’s third-leading scorer with an average of 8.3 points per contest. An explosive game against Columbia in March—Tay netted 24 points, while Rollins poured...
...senior aides, his son-in-law and the First Lady, Chen's public-approval rating has plunged below 20%. Faced with the threat of revolt from his own supporters, Chen last week beat a strategic retreat, announcing he would hand over day-to-day running of the government to Premier Su Tseng-chang. "He knows he's in political trouble," says Emile Sheng, a political-science professor at Soochow University in Taipei. "He's trying to do everything he can to remain in office...
...Charlie and I were called into his office and he sat us down, and the very first question he asked us was how would we like to room with the son of the owner of Bolero,” says Swett. Bolero was the premier private sailing yacht in America, “a 72-foot yawl, which was the finest boat that money could buy.”Swett and Cunningham, both interested in sailing, accepted.Swett says that he remembered his surprise when he first met Brown.“The chauffeur-driven Chrysler drove up to Thayer South...