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...boys until she was 18. But her decorum has won her fans in every corner of Asia. At a concert in the Chinese city of Wuhan, 55,000 people showed up in a cold rainstorm. CoCo chose to perform on the very edge of the stage, outside the protective tent. "Her makeup and hair were a mess," Nancy recalls, "But it was the most memorable concert ever...
...Last week, the assembled leaders relished a new era in Arab relations, holding a non-emergency summit for the first time in 14 years. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pitched a tent outside a palace and visited a donut shop during a surprise walkabout. A rumor swirled around Amman that Saddam himself was planning to attend. It would have made an electrifying appearance. But he failed to show...
Last week, "Eating Disorder Awareness Week" was announced under the heading of "Wellness Matters" on the weekly three-sided table tent printed by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). However, judging from the comments of Dining Services Director Ted A. Mayer at a recent Undergraduate Council meeting, HUDS seems to be adopting a policy with which weight-watchers University-wide can live...
...immensity and newfound wealth, NASCAR is in some regards still a traveling Southern tent show, a caravan of families who just happen to go very fast. It is nothing if not dynastic: Bill France handing the reins of his empire to Bill France Jr. Lee Petty handing the wheel to his son Richard, who hands it to his boy Kyle, who hands it to his kid Adam--who, tragically, is killed in 2000 at Loudon. Dale Jarrett teaching his son Dale how to drive, as Darrell Waltrip encourages his brother Michael. Bobby Allison teaching Clifford and Davey, then losing both...
...says, grinning broadly. "When God takes with one hand, he gives with the other." But as night falls, Malati grows quiet, edgy. After dinner, she is the last person to turn in. Then, just short of midnight, we are awakened by a piercing scream from the women's tent. It is Malati, shouting in her sleep: "Get me out! Get me out!" I learn that she has been doing this every night since the quake. In 10 years there will be no physical evidence of the great earthquake of 2001. But in the nightmares of Malati and a million others...