Word: volcano
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...Debbie Amanti, playing as an individual, shot a tournament-low round of 73. Though they played solidly overall, the Harvard golfers separated themselves from the competition by bulling through the tricky 10th and 14th holes mostly unimpeded while their opponents struggled. “The 14th was like a volcano hole, a raised green that sloped off to the sides,” coach Kevin Rhoads said. “We were really happy to come out of that with [mostly] pars and only a few bogies.” The 10th, a narrow 390-yard hole that plays even...
...nights and a one-way intercity ticket on the Eurostar. www.statravel.com For the Adventurer... Explore Costa Rica: $382 gets you airfare from Boston to San Jose, six days’ accomodation, and your own personal tour guide. Spend three days in the rainforest and climbing the Arenal volcano, and three days sleeping it off on the beach at Manuel Antonio. Return with a tan your friends will hate you for, along with unidenitfiable insect bites. www.statravel.com You Get What You Give Give a little bit back and head down to New Orleans for the Katrina relief effort. Register with...
Spanning the '60s and '70s, Dreamgirls is about the pop-cultural battle of glamour vs. soul: of Deena (Beyonc Knowles), the pretty singer, vs. Effie (Jennifer Hudson), a vocal volcano but a bit plump. Curtis (Jamie Foxx), their manager, banking on Deena's smooth sound and looks to peddle the Dreams to white audiences, will do anything to make the sale. The piece plumbs the lure of compromise, the risk of diluted dreams and broken hearts...
...come up with a novel form of damage control: sponsoring a sinetron, or Indonesian soap opera, on Surabaya TV station JTV. The 13-part series, Gali Lubang, Tutup Lubang (Digging a Hole, Filling a Hole), is a love story set among refugees left homeless by the mud volcano. "We wanted to show a real story about human interest," says JTV executive producer Awi Setiawan, who adds that Lapindo paid about $3,300 per episode...
Mount Roskill couldn't be further away from Middle-earth if it tried. Built on a volcano, the former Bible-belt suburb of Auckland is now a very 21st century ethnic melting pot-though that doesn't stop a tourist character in a new movie that's set there from asking, "Where is Mount Doom?" Rather than ring-seeking hobgoblins and hobbits, No. 2-about an ageing Fijian matriarch's gathering of the clan to name her successor-is filled with her kava-swigging, tree-chainsawing, pig-slaughtering grandchildren, who surf a volcano of emotions over one night...