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...Whenever he briefly poked his head out, crowds hooted wildly and waved red Ferrari hats and Spanish flags. Further down the paddock, where the F1 teams park their massive rolling pavilions, journalists were shoving microphones and cameras at another small man, this one all in silver. Michael Schumacher, the seven-time F1 world champion, was coming out of retirement in the livery of his new Mercedes team. The questions were not tough. "How does the car feel, Michael?" "I feel like a kid with a new toy," replied Schumi. Several dozen blogs and tweets in half a dozen languages instantly...
...Originally published as The Dog of Crossover Village in 1948, the second grouping (of seven stories) describes a ghastly ethical vacuum in the wake of World War II, infested with craven church elders, black marketeers and property speculators, which Hwang, who himself crossed over with his family from Pyongyang to Seoul in 1946, knew first-hand. "What a wretched state it was, with Koreans trying to swallow each other up," he writes in "Booze," venting authorial indignation, as he often does, in the guise of one of his characters. In this case, it's through the thoughts of an upright...
...other change was Alice's age. In the book she is "seven-and-a-half, exactly"; here she's 19 and meant to wed a pruny nobleman. It's not a crime for a film to turn a girl into a young lady: Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was 16, about twice the age of the book's Dorothy. And upping Alice's age removes the whisper of pedophilia that the 20th century applied to the love that Charles Dodgson, the Oxford math professor who was the real Lewis Carroll, lavished on the real Alice Liddell...
Stone’s team played hard in the final period, outshooting the Big Red, 13-5, and controlling the puck for most of the frame. Harvard got one goal closer with seven minutes to play, as junior Leanna Coskren took a pass from co-captain Cori Bassett at the top of the zone and put a high shot into the back...
...strong February gave Harvard the momentum to soundly defeat Princeton in the playoffs, knocking it off in two games by a combined margin of seven goals...