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...with Martel, and for Snowblind, a book by Robert Sabbag about drug smuggling, he produced a limited edition, complete with a Damien Hirst drug kit - mirror, razor blade and $100 bill. Invited to Buckingham Palace for a literary evening, Byng talked his way into an introduction to the Queen and presented her with a volume, drug kit and all. "I asked her if it could be included in the Royal Collection," Byng recalls. "She takes out the $100 bill and I know she's clocked on. She gives me a knowing smile and says, 'I'll have a good look...
...biggest dork in the world,” he explains. Seems Harvard ain’t the place to get your lovin’. Most of these marshals have had relationships outside of Harvard, ranging from Luke’s “most beautiful rodeo queen in Wyoming” to Deanna’s Boston University grad. Not that there’s anything wrong with Harvard’s men and women, but the focus seems to be more on friends and social groups, as Harpaul points out, not on long-term relationships. He admits...
...high-backed chairs, Devonshire cream, porcelain saucers and ostentatious pinkie fingers. Owing to this imagined heritage, the advent of chains like Tealuxe and proliferation of trendy herbal tea-shops might seem a flourish of Anglophilia, as if the alterna-caffeine crowd were hankering to sip chamomile with the Queen Mother herself. A new teashop in Cambridge aims to shatter this image with a taste of original tea. Truth is, the British have only taken tea-time for 350 years. The Chinese, on the other hand, have been at it for five thousand...
...game started off promising enough. The opening was a Queen's Gambit Declined, and Kramnik achieved a position in which he had an "isolated queen pawn" - a foot soldier in the center of the board with no comrades on the two adjacent files. In the past, Kramnik has been a master at exploiting such positions. Although an isolated pawn can become weak in the endgame, because it cannot be defended by another pawn, it is often an asset in the middlegame when the open files adjacent to it can serve as staging ramps for a strong attack. But Kramnik never...
...error occurred while processing this directive]"It was good to see her again?I hope I haven't done anything wrong." LOUIS GARNEAU, ex-cycling champion from Canada, after putting his arm around Queen Elizabeth II during a photo session...