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...looks a lot more dangerous than it really is," maintains Alex Coomber, the reigning women's World Cup champion. We'll take her word for it. A skeleton run begins with a 30-m sprint before the slider dives onto the 90-cm sled to hurtle around 15 steeply banked curves of the 1,500-m course. And without any mechanism for steering, sliders can control their descent only by shifting hips and shoulders. They risk losing precious 100ths of a second if they touch...
...aren't. Halle Berry--Miss Teen All-American, runner-up Miss USA and by acclamation one of the world's prime ravishers--is a gifted actress too. She has lent boldness and tact to Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah and Bulworth; she has captivated TV viewers as Dorothy Dandridge and Alex Haley's Queen. All this hints at some divine conspiracy--or at least a case of unfair genetic competition. A glamour monopoly...
...have surmised, I'm not buying any explanation for taking another person's words or ideas, partly because words and ideas are what make us individuals. This is why it is mystifying when one learns of such former borrowers as John Hersey or Alex Haley. These were people who defined their lives by the words they made. What laziness or madness could possibly explain their deliberately wearing someone else's mind? Frankly, if you want to appropriate someone else's ideas, I'd prefer cloning...
Luke Skywalker was not 1977's most popular epic hero; that was Kunta Kinte, the African whom author Alex Haley identified as his ancestor and whose family's 200-year saga became a 12-hr. ABC miniseries that broke ratings records and gave Americans of all shades a serious lesson in the horror of slavery. The event is recalled in an NBC special (this Friday) and the series' DVD release. Sprawling and stolid, Roots today evokes two vanished eras: the antebellum South, when blacks could earn dignity but not freedom; and those eight wintry nights when a whole nation could...
Even with the start of exams looming, Harvard had its first two sellouts of the year this weekend. Of everyone who packed the gym this weekend, none were louder than four players from last year’s Crimson team. Sophomore Kam Walton, senior Bryan Parker, Alex Lowder ’01 and Dan Clemente ’01 were all in attendance Saturday. It was Clemente, of course, who carried Harvard to its surprise win over Penn last year, scoring 29 points as the Crimson rolled to a upset that snapped the Quakers’ 25-game conference winning...