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...When she spoke to reporters at a press conference on Saturday afternoon, Kwan did not let on that she had actually strained a muscle during a fall at the practice session just an hour before. "Yesterday I woke up stiff, so I headed to the rink early to do my usual jump rope and stretching (to warm up before getting on the ice)," she said on Sunday. "Twenty minutes (into the session), I was still stiff, and tried to skate it off, but I was not at ease. I did three jumps, and on the triple flip, when I flipped...
...visiting Harvard as a prefrosh when I first heard Belle and Sebastian. After my long first night on campus, I woke to the opening strains of their breakout album “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” coming from my host’s CD-player alarm clock. As rain ran down the windows of the Lionel common room, I fell in love. It turns out I wasn’t alone. “If You’re Feeling Sinister” and several subsequent albums won the Scottish septet a legion...
Only later, when he woke up, did he learn that the armor plating he had been wearing on his chest had saved him from a large piece of shrapnel. "If I hadn't had body armor, I'd be dead," he says. Braddock got a Purple Heart, and he and his buddies--Specialist Josiah Jurich, Sergeant Charles Jordan and Staff Sergeant Marvin Albert II--were all awarded Bronze Stars. He was alive, with just one small regret. "They burned my helmet and Kevlar vest." O.K., two regrets. "I wanted a cool scar, like this," says Braddock, slashing his hand across...
...still beaming over the early-morning revelation. Terrence Howard, 36, woke up last Tuesday to find that he had been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Hustle & Flow and that another film in which he co-starred, Crash, was up for Best Picture. He spoke to TIME's Desa Philadelphia about portraying a pimp so convincingly and why his success in Hollywood has been bittersweet...
...Gustav Klimt have long graced everything in Austria from chocolate wrappings to subway walls. The real things, so emblematic of Vienna's embrace of early 20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly no longer theirs. After a seven-year legal battle, an Austrian arbitration court ruled...