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...first big win for Canada came Saturday evening, when 5-ft. 3-in. Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alta., won the women's freestyle moguls competition, thereby refuting, for the moment anyway, Rudge's remark that Canadians tend to gag "on the big day." Under bright lights accented by the moonlit sky at Sauze d'Oulx, top-ranked Heil performed a 360 off the first jump and her trademark backflip with iron cross (skis crossed, tips down) off the second. "I've been feeling the pressure pretty much the last eight months," said Heil, 22. "The most important thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Game On, Canada! | 2/13/2006 | See Source »

...that time in close quarters breeds a panoply of team dynamics--lasting friendships, near psychic synchronicity, petty sniping and, in the case of the skaters, love, marriage and divorce. "The codependency factor? It's through the roof," says Pavle Jovanovic, who lives in Calgary, Alta., with Steve Mesler and Brock Kreitzburg, his close friends and teammates in Hays' four-man bobsled. "I'm always telling [Mesler], Just because we live together, we don't have to do everything together all day. He tortures me." Hays is even more direct. "It's definitely a challenge just to keep from killing each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounters | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

...delighted. The four child actors did a splendid job. Corliss should lighten up, take a break from postmodern deconstructionism and take a trip through the magic wardrobe! Despite what Corliss thinks, there is indeed fire, passion and a lot of fun in the film. KEN FAST Derwent, Alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 16, 2006 | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...espa?ol se ha convertido en el segundo idioma de facto en EE.UU., el estilo Nuevo Latino ha tomado su lugar en la alta cocina, los sonidos del rock en espa?ol y reggaeton se han infiltrado en las listas de popularidad y los latinos no s?lo juegan en las grandes ligas sino que tambi?n administran sus equipos. Pero como cualquier otro grupo inmigrante que ha influido en la cultura estadounidense antes de establecer por completo su poder econ?mico y pol?tico, los 41.3 millones de hispanos s?lo est?n calentando motores. Aunque tienen un poder adquisitivo de 600,000 millones, reci?n empiezan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los 25 hispanos m?s influyentes de EE.UU. | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...Calgary, Alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 2005 | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

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