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Being a promising writer at 57 may keep you young--there's that diamond stud. But beyond the extra dollars, "breaking through" at that age, as it seems likely that Banks has done with the monolithic and masterly Cloudsplitter, may be worth little more than a wry smile. In any case, it has been a long wait and a hard climb. When Banks was the age of his students, he was a plumber in Concord, N.H., working construction. Plumbing was how the Banks men, his father and grandfather, earned their living. Russell had tried college (Colgate, on a full scholarship...
...drugstore" in the dictionary. If Billings & Stover Apothecaries isn't pictured, it ought to be. The unremarkable storefront at 41A Brattle St. is easily disregarded and certainly no competition for the brightly lit establishments of Brattle Square. But from those who notice it, Billings & Stover will elicit a nostalgic smile. Even the small tin milk carts and bottles that dress the windows seem quaint, not tacky...
...observe an Olympic truce. At the luge spiral, fans sat on banks of snow in earflaps, letting out cries of delight and astonishment as contestants whooshed past in 80-m.p.h. gusts of air. As cheering fellow lugers raised Hackl, lifting the perennial champion to their shoulders, a competing smile played out on the face of the Venezuelan team of one, known around the dinner table as Iginia Boccalandro...
...outstanding student, and a wonderful person," said Lewis, the professor of CS 121 when Weiss was a TF. "I have never seen her without a smile on her face. She was very well liked by the students in her CS 121 section...
...honor of leading America's women figure skaters to the Olympics next week. It was a victory that gave no evidence of the pain that shoots through her left foot when she lands one of those seemingly effortless triple jumps. The only expression on her face was that beatific smile, won by defiance of every sort of gravity, not just the earth's but the body's and the mind's as well, dangerous forces that cannot just bring a skater down but keep her down too. At the Winter Games in Nagano, Kwan will be joined on Team U.S.A...