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...city arguably jaded from hosting an Olympic Games and two Super Bowls, this event was a welcome change, boasting a fan/school-centric, feel-good atmosphere absent from the others. The pro events? Too exclusionary. The Olympics? Too long and large to get your arms around. None of those problems plague the Final Four: Despite seating nearly 55,000, the Georgia Dome felt like any college gym in America, packed with fans crazed for their alma mater - times four. Four massive cheering sections competing, overlapping, clamoring; four pep bands at once framing the pace of the game, its intimacy, your team...
...year-old Neo credits his success to his willingness to put on the screen what his audience actually thinks, feels and even how they talk. He broke artistic ground by writing dialogue in Singlish, the island's distinctive twisting of Shakespeare's tongue, widely spoken by Singaporeans but absent from local broadcasting. "As a director, I like real," he says. "Everything in my movies is real." Singaporean director Eric Khoo, whose gritty cinematic style puts him on the opposite end of the artistic spectrum, agrees that Neo is a master at getting at what lies beneath Singapore's stolid sterility...
During World War II, many of baseball’s greatest hitters and pitchers were absent from the diamond. According to The New York Times, 5,400 of the 5,800 ballplayers at the end of 1941 were in the military by January of 1945. Detroit Tigers slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Hank Greenberg entered the army on May 7, 1941, the day after he hit two home runs against the Yankees and seven months before Pearl Harbor. The season of 1941 was a magical one; Ted Williams hit .406 and Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight...
...extended military operation and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had declared Arafat "an enemy." The onslaught, which drew heavy criticism from the U.N. Security Council, came a day after an Arab summit in Beirut, which Arafat was prevented from attending by Israel. The leaders of Egypt and Jordan were also absent. The summit endorsed a Saudi peace plan offering Israel normal relations in exchange for withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war and a resolution of the problem of Palestinian refugees in other Arab countries...
First-years who were assigned to Adams House were conspicuously absent during the Annenberg festivities—they were attending a special lunch at the Adams dining hall, where women received roses and the men were given cigars...