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...crew.A former Canadian hockey star and standout all-around athlete, senior Anton Wintner competed in rugby, track, football, basketball, lacrosse, and hockey before he even got to college. But when Wintner arrived at Harvard, it was time to pick up an oar.“Rowing was one sport I had never done,” Wintner said. “I came to Harvard, and the only sports you could just pick up and walk on to were basically track and rowing. I decided that I had a little bit better of a physique for rowing than for running...
...shame No Country for Old Men doesn't officially open till Nov. 9, since it has a villain crazier, scarier and more implacable than any Halloween horror ghoul. As incarnated by the great Javier Bardem, Anton Chigurh is a killer from hell who likes to play mind games with his victims before he makes them play dead. How could an ordinary fellow like Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) hope to elude this monster, when Moss has $2 million that Chigurh plans to get back without saying please...
...tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, Rostropovich played with the U.S.S.R. State Symphony Orchestra in London. Watched by hovering KGB minders - "Sputniks," the musicians privately called them - he was greeted by shouts of protest. But his performance of the mournful, defiant concerto by the Czech composer Antonín Dvorák brought the hall to a comprehending silence. "As I played, I saw the dead in the Prague streets through my tears," he later said...
...October 1979, photographer Anton Corbijn, the son of a rural Dutch Protestant minister, set out for England in pursuit of Unknown Pleasures. That was the title of the dark, expansive debut album from the Manchester post-punk band Joy Division, and to Corbijn it was an artistic clarion call. "I thought, 'I want to be where that music comes from,' " says Corbijn, now 52. "It was my mission to photograph Joy Division." Within two weeks he took an iconic picture of the band that showed singer and lyricist Ian Curtis turning back toward the camera, with unwitting portent, while...
...Anton Chekhov once visited Sakhalin Island to report on the condition of its prisoners and left a tagline unlikely to be adopted by the tourist bureau - if there were one: "Now I have seen Sakhalin, which is hell." And this from an author famous for understatement. Exiled at the far eastern end of the Russian Federation, just north of Japan, Sakhalin Island was where imperial Russia once sent some of its most unfortunate convicts, on a journey that was usually one-way. In Soviet times it became a closed military base; site of the notorious shooting down of Korean...