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Peralta, 30, works at a double-seater station and charges just under $8 a shine. Clients had warned him months ago that this year would be tough, he says, "but after that, no problem." A few weeks ago, though, Peralta noticed a change in the way his clients' feet moved. Customers began to say, "they can't talk right now, they have their mind on something else, or they just work on their BlackBerry," Peralta says. "It can be a pain for me, because when people are stressed or moody they tend to fidget and I have to grab their...
According to the Web site for Diamond magazine, “It’s your time to shine.” But as one “Sexonymous” person wrote on the site, “it’s your time to ‘flash’ would be more fitting.” —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...meet Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a small-town Louisiana bar waitress with her own supernatural issues. She can read people's minds, making daily life a minefield of too much information. When the bar gets its first vamp visitor, 173-year-old Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), she takes a shine to him, not just for his smoky looks or his undead-Confederate-soldier courtliness: to her relief, she can't read his thoughts. Their romance unnerves her friends and coworkers, though, particularly when women start turning up dead with twin puncture wounds...
Perhaps, looking back on Beijing 2008, we will judge the Games as the moment that China assumed the role of future superpower. Tokyo '68 was like that, heralding the emergence of what was to become the world's second-largest economy. Or, maybe, like Berlin '36, the Olympics will shine a light on a repressive, closed political system. The enduring legacy of Beijing 2008 won't be known for some time. For now, we can celebrate the accomplishments of swift Jamaicans and amphibious Americans and, most of all, a battalion of Chinese athletes who resoundingly displaced the U.S. atop...
...More than 10,000 athletes from all over the world have trained very hard for the Olympics. If they didn't compete, your 100 couldn't shine. Adolf Mikula, Vienna...