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...about the only person they did not rough up." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, after members of her delegation and the media were forcibly blocked from her meeting with President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan...
...Beers' move into retail may be motivated by its shrinking share of the rough-diamond market. In part because of new competing mines in Russia, Australia, Canada and Angola, De Beers' cut has fallen from 80% at its height in the late 1980s to 50% today. The move is controversial. When De Beers announced this venture in 2001, rival retailers stocked with De Beers stones saw it as "the ultimate threat," says Matthew Runci, Jewelers of America CEO. De Beers has promised to refuse its retail spin-off sweetheart deals. Adds Runci: "I've heard people adjusting, as they must...
When Tolkien wrote his Lord of the Rings trilogy, his hobbits were much like English people, and the "Shire" a rough analogy to an England reluctantly roused to fight evil. After one harrowing adventure, two hobbits, Merry and Pippin, found themselves chitchatting as they went along: "They turned and walked side by side slowly along the line of the river. Behind them the light grew in the East. As they walked they compared notes, talking lightly in hobbit-fashion of the things that had happened since their capture. No listener would have guessed from their words that they had suffered...
Until 20 years ago, Vancouver's Main Street?an artery running from Chinatown toward South Vancouver?marked the boundary between the city's smarter West Side and the rough-and-ready section known as East Van. How times have changed. Successive waves of artists, media types and other loft dwellers kicked off a gradual process of gentrification; the day young families started infiltrating its neighborhoods, East Van's journey to respectability was complete. One knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Caf?s and galleries have mushroomed there; so have boutiques?particularly around 21st...
That was the essence of Paul; competitive only to a point, he lived his life seriously but never took it too seriously. It was Paul, the driving force behind intramurals, who reminded his teammates when the going got rough that it was only an IM championship (they lost the football, basketball and volleyball championship matches in three consecutive nailbiters—all videotaped by Paul’s dad and score tallied by Lindsey). It was Paul who could play soccer with the stars and run like the wind, but didn’t mind going on a gentle bike...