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...depth at the back, new coach Mark Mazzoleni turned to Kim and asked him to switch to defense. It wasn’t the first time Kim changed positions for his team—as a senior in high school, Kim’s coach moved him back to shore up a shaky defense...
Multipurpose is the key word for the new laundry room. Mariana Fischer of Key Biscayne, Fla., added a bed and bath to hers, so it doubles as an extra guest room. Chris Schwartz's laundry room on Chicago's North Shore is "basically the think tank of the house," she says. It has areas for dog grooming, food preparation, flower arranging, gift wrapping and computing. The family's three bichons frises live in gated homes beneath the soapstone counters...
While most first-years were relaxing at home or partying it up somewhere on some distant sun-soaked shore during intersession, The Blanks spent their break holed up in Boch’s grandfather’s home in Vermont. Being sequestered in the middle of nowhere allowed the group to spend 16-hour days honing their musical skills. “There was literally nothing to do up there but play music,” says Carter. “I mean, there was a mule and a cow somewhere nearby. And a cat, I think. But other than...
...International mediators have been trying to find a solution to the Cyprus question since intercommunal fighting broke out on the island in 1963. The 1974 division occurred when the Turkish army, in response to a Greece-backed coup, invaded and occupied roughly one-third of Cyprus along its northern shore. The result: the "green line" that separates the formerly thriving but now-underdeveloped Turkish northern part from the comparatively affluent Greek southern part. The U.N. plan calls for the Greek and Turkish regions of Cyprus to be reunited as a confederation of two states, joined loosely by a central government...
Describing the experience of writing his second novel, Barbary Shore, he writes, “I always felt as if I were not writing the book myself but rather as if I were serving as a subject for some intelligence which had decided to use me to write the book. If I hadn’t heard about the unconscious, I would have had to postulate one to explain this phenomenon...