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...years old, St. Pancras railway station is London's new, hip gateway to Europe. Thanks to a recent billion-dollar refit, passengers awaiting high-speed trains to Paris or Brussels can sip champagne at the continent's longest bar, or eat oysters and caviar at a fine-dining restaurant. With the value of the pound plummeting, though, Britons heading to Europe are not exactly in a celebratory mood. Trips to Paris used to involve "a stroll around the shops to see if I could pick up some nice Parisian fashion," grumbles Jemima, a 35-year-old sales professional...
...season has inspired confidence in the team. “We feel very confident going against Trinity,” Snyder said. “We are going to get on court as much as possible in the next week. All we’ll do is train.” The Crimson then takes on No. 2 Penn and No. 1 Princeton during the first half of February heading into the season-ending Howe Cup Championship. —Staff writer Barrett P. Kenny can be reached at bpkenny@fas.harvard.edu...
...standout had turned a shade of crimson and was sporting ice packs on both shoulders. “It’s pretty exhausting but it’s a good indication of how intense HMSD [Harvard Men’s Swimming and Diving] is and how hard we train,” McLean said of his challenge. Although the Simsbury, Conn. native was the obvious highlight of the competition, McLean was not the only member of the Crimson team who shone against Brown. Harvard registered many standout performances on the day, capturing ten of the meet?...
Ride the Rails. Rail Europe is offering half-off fares on the high-speed Thalys train routes connecting Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and 14 other cities. Book by Feb. 28 for travel through March...
...plenty of food, firecrackers (to chase away evil spirits), red paper lanterns (red being a bright color that portends a sunny future) and dragon and lion dances for good luck. (In the dances, a group of performers holds up a model of the animal's head and a long train symbolizing its body and moves sinuously as a way to demonstrate power and dignity - no lions or dragons are harmed.) Such traditions are rooted in an astrological system that dates back to the Shang Dynasty (about 1700 B.C.), when soothsayers would burn turtle shells or shoulder blades of goats...