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...rest any time soon. In Sydney, Cuba and South Korea are the favorites, but pressure is on Japan to produce a medal in what has become the country's national sport. The young ace is expected to start in preliminary-round games against the U.S. and South Korea. If Japan's Olympic squad battles itself into contention, the temptation will be to pitch Matsuzaka as often as possible. After all, the whole country remembers his performance at Koshien, and nothing would excite fans more than an encore...
...your prayers. Casting dramas, rewrites and on-set tensions have turned Charlie's Angels, which opens Nov. 3, into the most chronicled production since Titanic. The studio has spent around $90 million turning the TV show into a movie (always an iffy investment), but there is good news: ace screenwriter John August (Go) has made a significant contribution to the script, and the eye-popping trailer is exciting audiences. Here's hoping the movie is a babe...
...Great American Composer by leading the San Francisco Symphony in Aaron Copland's electrifying Symphony No. 3 (Sept. 27-28). Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel, the hottest tickets of the post-Pavarotti era, join forces for a gala concert at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House (Oct. 29). Ace countertenor David Daniels, opera's freshest star, makes his triumphant return to the New York City Opera in a new production of Handel's Rinaldo (Oct. 31). And Chanticleer, the Grammy-winning 12-man a cappella vocal ensemble, backs up Magnificat (Teldec), its elegant new CD of plainchant and Renaissance...
...Each spring, students at Woodrow Wilson Elementary in Denton, Texas, trade their normal curriculum for an eight-week crash course known as "TAAS Camp." There, students who ace a day of drills spend the late afternoon playing computer and board games. The stragglers get one-on-one tutoring. The pressure peaks at test time. Says Sarah Telaneus, 11: "All of a sudden your heart starts pounding and you're thinking, ?I might go blank.'" Not to worry: she and her classmates turned in scores high enough to put their teachers in line for bonuses...
...generous $17 an hour, I participate in what is essentially a numbers racket, an enterprise that boasts enough coded charts, spreadsheets and Scantron forms to lure Ace Rothenstein (DeNiro's Casino character) out of retirement/hiding. But the bottom line is this: For about $1,000, my employer guarantees high school students a 100-point improvement on the Scholastic Assessment Test. If they don't get it, they get to take the class again for free. And again. And again...