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Tucked away in a remote village in mountainous northern Bali, 23-year-old Rimbawa attempts to remember the disaster that changed his life. He gently strokes his arm, wrapped in a grubby bandage that protects the third-degree burns beneath, and stares into the middle distance where his mother and two sisters are busy preparing banana-leaf offerings for a Hindu cleansing ceremony. Minutes pass. Tears well in his eyes. Then slowly, painfully, Rimbawa rises from his seat on the stone step in front of the family home and shuffles into his bedroom. The interview is over. Not a single...
...before him whom institutional racism kept from playing in the bigs. Or the famously reckless, play-through-pain Pete Reiser (who was so mangled after hitting the wall at Ebbets Field in 1947 that he was given the last rites, and played on). Or Pete Gray, who lost an arm in childhood yet still played a year in the majors. Or some schmo with average skills (like Bobby Thompson in 1951) who achieved an incandescent moment that brought his team to greatness ("The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant...
...Sony in November. Like nearly all his movies, it will be produced through Sandler's Happy Madison Productions. Run by a tightly knit group of Sandler's buddies, the company has turned out several low-budget comedies starring his former Saturday Night Live colleagues. Happy Madison's television arm recently struck a deal to produce a sitcom for the WB network. Working with Revolution Studios, Sandler will serve as executive producer on next year's feature comedy Anger Management. Sandler was paid a reported $25 million for the movie, which co-stars Jack Nicholson. There's a very funny scene...
...error occurred while processing this directive]"It was good to see her again?I hope I haven't done anything wrong." LOUIS GARNEAU, ex-cycling champion from Canada, after putting his arm around Queen Elizabeth II during a photo session...
Knowles regained the use of his arm within two years. In the following years, he was able to play baseball and tennis, haul beef for a meat packing firm and drive race cars...