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...prison dungeon, breaking chains, bones and the law of gravity with equal finesse. Many of the fights - Tai Lung vs. the Five Furies, or vs. Shifu or, finally, against a certain panda - are so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been designed by an ace stunt coordinator like Yuen Wo-ping. One scene, which has Po and Shifu dueling with chopsticks, stilts and tree branches to grab the last available dumpling, is an instant classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kung Fu Panda: Wise Heart, Sweet Art | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard baseball team can pinpoint exactly where the 2008 campaign went awry. From March 30 to April 8, the Crimson went 1-7 in Ivy League play and essentially eliminated itself from title contention. “That was the low point of the season,” senior ace Shawn Haviland said. “That put us out of it pretty early.”The slump came right at the start of the Ancient Eight schedule, so by the time Harvard found its stride late in the year, there was no time left for a comeback...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Can’t Recover From Historic Early Lows | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...minted Ivy League Pitcher of the Year Shelly Madick to the circle. With one beatable team and one powerhouse joining them in the round-robin, picking up a W against the Pride would be the key to the Crimson advancing in the tournament.Madick, dueling with Hofstra’s ace, cruised through the first three frames allowing only one hit before surrendering a go-ahead solo homer in the bottom of the fourth. Later in the fourth, Madick took a line drive off her left leg, her plant leg, so hard that it caromed into left field for a double...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Final Edit: To Take the ‘I’ Out of Article | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

...spirituality underlining them. Once Po stops tripping over things and devotes himself to the exhausting curriculum devised by his Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), the movie shifts into high martial-arts gear, with some sequences so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been designed by an ace stunt coordinator like Yuen Wo-ping. One scene, which has Po and Shifu dueling with chopsticks, stilts and tree branches to grab the last available dumpling, is an instant classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoon Pandas, Animated Nightmares | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...mound Princeton’s ace is senior Kristen Schaus (4.21ERA) who has pitched 148 innings this season with 173 strikeouts. Against Harvard though, back on March 30, the hurler went just 3 1/3 innings giving up five hits and two runs. The Tigers use two other pitchers, Michelle Tolfa (3. 64) and Lettire (3.25). As a staff the Princeton pitchers have...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Readies For Ivy Championship Series | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

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