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...worked well. Since the flooding, repairs have been made to parts of the rooms that were damaged, including carpeting and ceiling tiles. A water back-up is unlikely to happen again, Levesque said, and is not an inherent problem with the plumbing in Quincy. —Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu...
...more-and no less-than the significance of a fresh young blossom on roots that had weathered many a season of wintry doubt. The British ... saw in their new young Queen a reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future ... 'It may well be,' wrote a thoughtful London editorialist, 'that we here in Britain, by accident rather than design, have stumbled back to the original, the true and abiding function of monarchy, which lay in the magical power...
...matter how much money the Los Angeles Galaxy wastes on notoriety, America only has room in its heart for one over-the-hill English dandy, and David Beckham can’t hope to rival the luxurious chest hair of Sir Roger Moore. Besides, Victoria already had her fifteen minutes in North America. Becks, we don’t want to be your lover...
Seated in a nondescript office in Hong Kong, 1,500 workers are turning the wheels of the global economy. Without leaving their desks, these merchandisers at Hong Kong--based trading outfit Li & Fung connect the far-flung dots of today's international manufacturing system. They make sure that Victoria's Secret gets its bras, American Eagle Outfitters its T shirts and Disney its stuffed Winnie the Poohs. One moment, workers in Hong Kong are haggling with fabricmakers for the best price of denim, and the next, they're ensuring that a shipment of teddy bears gets to U.S. stores...
...playing in any more games. And team president Ramón Calderón said the English midfielder is joining the Los Angeles Galaxy because no other team wants him. "David Beckham is going to be some sort of film actor living in Hollywood," Calderón scoffed. Unfazed, Beck's wife Victoria scoped out Hollywood homes, and American sports fans contemplated something novel: buying tickets for a soccer game...