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...resort 300 miles from Timmins and moved the whole family to a cabin with no running water. Once the siblings were adults and out of the house, Twain says she felt "very old." With no idea of what she wanted from life, she nevertheless put together a demo tape, and in 1991 Mercury Nashville gave her a $20,000 advance and signed her to a contract...
...Ying-jeou likes to run. As mayor of Taipei for the past four years, he's become famous for a punishing 17-hour-a-day work schedule that includes a religiously observed half-hour jog. Over the weekend, he broke the tape on an utterly triumphant political race, winning a second four-year term in the mayor's office by a landslide. The question for Taiwan: will Ma complete his term?or will he choose to run for the island's presidency...
...other end, Providence coach Bob Deraney called the loss gut-wrenching. Soon after the game’s end, he had already watched the game-winning goal on tape. He was left wondering what might have been had the puck bounced a different way off the wall at the start of the Harvard possession that led to the winning goal...
...Australian Aborigines, then jumps over to Renaissance Italy to muse on the unique blood-orange varnish that Stradivarius used to anoint his violins. Along the way, we learn that NapolEon could have died of arsenic poisoning from green wallpaper then in vogue. We are also taught that bureaucratic red tape comes from ribbons dipped in a safflower-red dye that were used to tie bundles of legal documents in England, and that 19th-century painters favored an autumnal brown made from the remains of Egyptian mummies...
...says he eventually went back to the boyfriend, only to discover that his partner’s self-obsession just wouldn’t fade. This was clear to Marcus when the boyfriend began spending “hours and hours and hours” obsessing over an audition tape he wanted to submit to “The Real World” in the spring. Near the end of their relationship, Marcus says he began cheating on the boyfriend out loneliness...