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...great year. They really improved in their racing skills and helped the team a great deal.” The women’s alpine squad faced an especially daunting task this year, with only one active female member competing on a weekly basis. “With Tess Wood out from competitions with an injury, Caroline McHugh was the only girl competing for us, which meant that no matter how well she skied, she just did not have enough help to improve her team’s finish,” Kinner said. The alpine squad welcomes five additional...
...Barack Obama's first pick for the Supreme Court? Of the four women in final contention for the job - the competition included two members of his Administration, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as well as his fellow Chicagoan, Appeals Court Judge Diane P. Wood - Sotomayor was the candidate with whom the President was least familiar. But Sotomayor aced an hour-long interview with the President last Thursday at the White House, an official there says. "She is in many ways the combination of the experience and strong intellect he's looking for, as well...
Housed in a beautifully restored, 105-year-old building - complete with colorful tiled floors, carved screens and shutters, and a spectacular wood-beam roof - the Chinese House is the brainchild of Alexis de Suremain, a French expatriate who is also behind some of Phnom Penh's best boutique hotels (including the 20-room Pavilion, just 100 meters from the Royal Palace, and the new Blue Lime). The dramatic, lantern-lit and antique-strewn interior is home to a downstairs exhibition space and an upstairs lounge, where guests enjoy designer drinks and finger food. (See pictures of Shanghai...
...symbolized the determination of the city's élite to rebuild Chicago as a cultural force to be reckoned with. Over the years it was expanded frequently. Now the 264,000-sq.-ft. addition of the Modern Wing, which was proposed by the Institute's former director James Wood and seen to completion by his successor James Cuno, makes the Art Institute the second largest American museum, after the Metropolitan Museum in New York. (See pictures of the new Modern Wing...
Flames engulfed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints off Brattle Street yesterday morning, evicting at least 500 people and reducing the building to a skeleton of walls, a dusty steeple, and a chasm of seared wood...