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...urging the U.S. to side with her embattled land. For five months Madame Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden; traveling to San Francisco; talking on the radio. In an address to Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously," she said. After...
...junk food. Gourmands heading south over the next few months will be in for a treat, as New Zealand enters its season of food and wine festivals. These kick off on Nov. 16 in the wine region of Martinborough, with the Toast Martinborough drinkathon. Your chances of attending are slim, if last year is anything to go by - the 10,500 tickets for the 2002 event sold out in less than an hour. Console yourself with the Great Fitzroy Mussel Fest (a vast mussel bake on Great Barrier Island on Jan. 10, 2004), or Wellington's Pinot Noir...
...embattled land. For seven months, Madame Chiang, as she was best known in the West, seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden, traveling to San Francisco, talking on the radio. In an address to Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously but to risk it gloriously," she said. After...
...overtime possession, Harvard came mighty close to causing another tie situation, facing third-and-goal on the four-yard line. Having handed off to Dawson on every single overtime play, the chances of running it in looked slim. In a plucky call, Murphy sent out five wide receivers and the offensive line bought Schires enough time for the QB to find Byrnes in double coverage and secure Harvard’s eighth straight win over the Tigers...
Earlier this year, McLean-Foreman beat Meyer by a slim three seconds during the Harvard-Yale race...