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...first true Bond sequel, is the shortest, at 1hr.46, and it wastes no time shifting into high gear. It begins in the middle of a car chase, with Bond's Aston Martin being pursued by a convoy of nasty cars on the hairpin turns of a mountain road outside Siena, Italy. Doesn't matter if the bad guys have enough artillery to stock a Third World uprising; Bond's superior driving skills, and the series' reluctance to kill off its hero in the first reel, make him the victor and survivor. At one point on that narrow winding stretch...
...Harvard.Only one team will emerge from this contest undefeated in Ivy League play. If you’re a Crimson fan, hope that it’s Penn. The Quakers have a much harder schedule than the Bears after this week, facing Princeton and Cornell on the road, along with Harvard, while Brown’s final slate consists of the disappointing Yale and Ancient Eight bottom-dwellers Dartmouth and Columbia.If the Crimson sweeps through the rest of the season—a very realistic possibility—a Penn win tomorrow would at least guarantee Harvard a share...
...East. With the hotel market falling at home, perhaps W will find success with its first outpost in China. The 393-room W Hotel in Hong Kong opened this week on the waterfront in Kowloon, with sweeping views of Victoria Harbor from the rooftop pool. 1 Austin Road West, Hong Kong...
Anticipate an odd case of road rage this week among hedge-fund high rollers driving home while contemplating some catastrophic losses in the market, while the iconic Porsche logo on their steering wheel stares back at them. That's because the venerated Stuttgart sports-car manufacturer on Monday inflicted losses estimated to be as high as $38 billion on hedge funds, banks and other investors who had been short-selling Volkswagen stock. It was more than just patriotic fervor that got Germans cheering this week when shares in VW shot up to more than $1,276, making...
...image problems did not, however, begin with the trial. Allegations of his friends and relatives benefiting from federal largesse have circulated in Alaska for years. While his trial was underway, a story broke about $2.7 million in federal funding that Stevens directed to be used to pave a rural road in his town that leads to his favorite restaurant - a restaurant owned by a longtime friend and campaign contributor...