When they got to the chaise longue, Arianda spent a long time playing with the heavy piece of furniture, at first leaning against it like a cat on a scratching pole, then kicking and pushing the cumbersome prop until it was properly angled.

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You have to ride a gondola and then a sno-cat to get there, and the menu is heavy on game, like elk and Colorado buffalo.

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Then, when the cat-calls continued, the extraordinary reality finally dawned on me: that the hypnotic spell which Sachin has cast over Indian cricket fans since first representing his country as a cherubic-faced 16-year-old had suddenly been broken.

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It moved through hoods, beanies and "Cat in the Hat" hats on to baseball caps first turned sideways and then with a flat brim (the polar opposite of the redneck and preppy artfully turned trend) and the current reinvented trend for "the bucket, " preferably from Louis Vuitton or Ralph Lauren.

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Caterpillar ( CAT - news - people ) trucks, then made 3-D animated films on the sophisticated movie software Maya and obsessed over model trains.

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