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...even carry a tune: check out his singing on YouTube. You may even come across one of his three hit singles. Indeed, Pacquiao's worst defeat came outside of the ring, when he lost his bid for a Philippines congressional seat in 2007. Regardless, his popularity has continued to soar. Pacquiao plans to retire from boxing this year and intends to make a congressional run again in 2010. (See TIME's 100 most influential people...
...majestic fjords and luscious landscape of the composer’s native Norway. In the third movement, Friere’s accents and staccatos lacked the caustic bite that keeps listeners on edge. He never foraged deep enough into the keyboard to make Grieg’s melodies soar, though the orchestra, which finally reached a fully blended volume near the coda, did manage to salvage the concerto’s explosive conclusion.After Friere’s encore rendition of Gluck’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” which was just as tame...
...while the gazes of spectators in the stands have been set firmly in the sky, watching baseball after baseball soar over fences at an astounding rate, captain Harry Douglas—perhaps Harvard’s most consistent, if not its flashiest hitter—has been quietly piecing together a breakout season, which continued in yesterday’s contest at Campanelli Stadium...
...Washington HIV Infections Soar in the Nation's Capital A report by the District of Columbia revealed that at least 3% of residents suffer from HIV or AIDS--among the highest rates in the nation and a figure that far outstrips the 1% benchmark that the city's HIV/AIDS administration says indicates a "severe" epidemic. The city's rate of infection--which has risen 22% since 2006--surpasses those found in some developing nations, and officials warn that the actual tally is even higher than the reported number. More than 75% of residents harboring the virus are African American...
...armchair American ingenuity and, not incidentally, a nifty description of a fiction writer. On paper, a novel about hope, nostalgia, love, disillusionment, pataphysics and the science of lift might seem like a hopelessly overdetermined bucket of bolts, an aerodynamic impossibility. But Kraft's affectionately satirical, buoyant language makes Flying soar...