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...heaven on earth? As the holiday-home market has taken off in Asia, Phuket and Bali have nurtured a healthy rivalry with each other, trading off the honor of being listed as Asia's best island in travel magazines. Phuket aficionados talk loftily of the Thai island's superior beaches and cheap but professional hospitals, while Bali fans boast of the island's volcanoes and great surfing spots. Nevertheless, the business of vacation villas isn't a zero-sum game, largely because the members of the international jet set who dig Phuket are a breed apart from the culture vultures...
...high school I ran in a lot of track meets at Fordham. While I have mostly blocked out the memories of me awkwardly knocking down hurdles as superior athletes watched on the sidelines with a mix of bemusement and pity, from what I remember, Vince Lombardi’s alma mater will provide a lovely setting for Yale to thrash the Rams...
...taken up the holding midfield role and helped the Crimson to control the play Saturday.“I think that’s the hardest anyone’s worked all season,” Stamatis said of Grimm’s performance.On paper, Harvard was the superior team, and once the game started, it was clear that a surprise result was unlikely. After dominating possession in the opening exchanges, the Crimson began to create chances about 15 minutes into the match. Grimm sent a rocket just over the bar from 40 yards out, and then five minutes later...
...evaluate literary achievement on a common and universal metric without in some way disadvantaging writers from nations with newly emerging literatures. And even if the question of abstract “fairness” seems irrelevant to the ultimate goal of the Nobel—which is to recognize superior lifetime achievement in the field of letters—that irrelevance renders the question of whether or not one can assign a national identity to any contemporary writing no less interesting...
...naturally)—are so manufactured, outlandish, or cliché that they lose their link to reality and irritate rather than amuse. There are some mildly interesting plot twists involving the identity of Alison’s boyfriend and the emergence of Lawrence, Sidney’s immediate superior, as a convincing villain. Likewise, the always-engaging Bridges, in a loose play on legendary Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, is entertaining—though in truth this may be due more to his mesmerizing gray wig than his actual performance. And when the buffoonery shtick is kept to manageable...