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...stone steps where Mongol conqueror Timur the Lame walked in 1398, admiring the city whose inhabitants he had butchered (his contribution to Delhi's architecture-pyramids of skulls-has thankfully been lost). Sitting in Haldiram's, a vegetarian eatery in old Delhi, you can admire the Sunehri mosque, whose roof Nadir Shah, a king of Persia who had invaded Delhi, climbed in 1739 to make sure that the city's inhabitants were being massacred as he had ordered...
...road to fame, but it's rarely noted that Clarkson already lived in Hollywood (she was only in Burleson because her apartment burned down), or that, as a demo singer for Gerry Goffin, the ex-husband of Carole King and co-writer of Up on the Roof and (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Clarkson received high-level on-the-job instruction in songwriting and recording techniques. She even had the business sense to pass on two bad pre-Idol record deals. "They would have completely pigeonholed me as a bubblegum act," says Clarkson. "I was confident enough...
...sweeping open space. Gae Aulenti, the Italian architect who turned Paris' Gare d'Orsay into a stunning modern museum, has applied her magic to the 1960s-era Palavela skating rink. Preserving its sail-shaped outer structure, she introduced a new "building within a building" independent of the overlapping roof above. Yet the makeover has left intact Torino's graceful arcaded shopping streets, lively 19th century cafés and splendid squares: medal ceremonies will be held each night in the grand Piazza Castello against the backdrop of the imposing 350-year-old Palazzo Reale. Inside the cafés, visitors...
...athletes in these sports. Some skaters, in fact, do get hitched. All that time in close quarters breeds a panoply of team dynamics - lasting friendships, near psychic synchronicity, petty sniping and, in the case of the skaters, love, marriage and divorce. "The codependency factor? It's through the roof," says Pavle Jovanovic, who lives in Calgary, Alberta, with Steve Mesler and Brock Kreitzburg, his close friends and teammates in Hays' four-man bobsled. "I'm always telling [Mesler] just because we live together, we don't have to do everything together all day. He tortures me." Hays is even more...
...that time in close quarters breeds a panoply of team dynamics--lasting friendships, near psychic synchronicity, petty sniping and, in the case of the skaters, love, marriage and divorce. "The codependency factor? It's through the roof," says Pavle Jovanovic, who lives in Calgary, Alta., with Steve Mesler and Brock Kreitzburg, his close friends and teammates in Hays' four-man bobsled. "I'm always telling [Mesler], Just because we live together, we don't have to do everything together all day. He tortures me." Hays is even more direct. "It's definitely a challenge just to keep from killing each...