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Start training for the Boston Volvo Village Thanksgiving Day 5K Road Race. No one should ever run without some sort of preparation first (unless, of course, you are Eli Ceryak). The race is to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and all runners receive a long-sleeve t-shirt and a gift bag of sponsor goodies. Volunteers are also needed. Registration, 7:30 a.m., start time 9 a.m., Boston Volvo Village, 75 North Beacon St., Brighton. Runner...
...highway in Southern California some 25 years ago, I still rarely see a bike I don't like and can't suppress a twinge of envy when some yuppie on a postmodernist Japanese burner splits the lanes of the Long Island Expressway and goes blasting past my sedate Volvo. Divided, I am reminded of a Japanese saying about the poisonous fugu blowfish, which, when prepared under license, becomes a gastronomic delicacy: "I want to eat fugu, but I want to live...
...sometimes other perks to those who bring in hirable candidates. At SRA International, a Virginia computer-software firm, any employee who finds a new worker gets $1,000, plus a chance in a company lottery. Prizes include the choice of a BMW Roadster, a Mercury Mountaineer or a Volvo sedan and an all-expenses-paid cruise for a family of four...
...star, winner of Emmy, Golden Globe and MTV Movie awards. But on the evidence, she is also a caring, clever person who loves her folks and her shaggy Samoyed dog Johnny, belongs to no cult, lives in the unchic San Fernando Valley, drives a boring black Volvo sedan, loves opera, listens to the dictates of her conscience, hears the ticking of her biological clock, protects her privacy as you would if you were famous and shrugs off her exhausting TV-and-movie workload--she made As Good As It Gets and a season of Mad About You simultaneously--by saying...
...many people, but not everybody. Last week an ad appeared in the Wall Street Journal offering for sale a dress that had been bought at the Christie's auction of Diana's clothes. The purchaser paid $25,300 but has reportedly turned down $150,000. In Macau a Volvo dealership used a photograph of Diana in an ad touting the safety of its cars (Volvo canceled its contract). Finally, in Boston, three masked men tried to steal two dresses of Diana's that were in the window of a boutique. An armed guard thwarted them, and the dresses...