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...unrepentant. "We're not pioneers on this; we followed the I.A.A.F. rules," says Dahlan Al-Hamad, president of the Qatar Athletic Federation. Though their athletes have been integrated for longer, host France's team includes many foreign-born and naturalized stars, such as long-jump gold medalist Eunice Barber, who came to France after a French diplomat spotted her in her native Sierra Leone. Moroccan-born marathoner Khalid Khannouchi, granted American citizenship in 2000, became the world-record holder two years later. But the track and field apparatus Qatar has gathered as it prepares to host the 2006 Asian Games...
Gelbart started early in show biz when his father, barber to the stars, persuaded client Danny Thomas to give Larry, then 16, a shot writing comedy. Gelbart, who has called writing "the perfect medium for shy extroverts," was soon a scribe for Jack Paar, Red Buttons and Bob Hope. As a writer on the legendary Caesar's Hour, Gelbart "popped jokes like popcorn," recalls colleague Carl Reiner. "Once Sid [Caesar] got a call from Bob Hope, offering an oil well to get Larry back...
...concentrated dose of music, nothing quite matches the North Sea Jazz Festival (July 11-13), which packs around 250 acts into one weekend in The Hague. "You make your own festival," says director Theo van den Hoek. Visitors can go pure with Chicago's spectacular pianist-singer Patricia Barber and trumpeter Dave Douglas, or leaven tradition with deep house, like Norwegian Bugge Wesseltoft, or with klezmer, like John Zorn's Electric Masada. If that's all too demanding, no problem: a full weekend's schedule can be crafted with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Steve Winwood and Solomon Burke...
Harvard was well-represented in Ivy honors. Juniors midfielder Katie Westfall and back Caitlin Fisher were the squad’s two first-team All-Ivy representatives for the second straight year. Seniors Totman and leading scorer Joey Yenne made the second team, as did sophomore back Liza Barber...
...mathematical-like precision and dedication to perfection in writing is reminiscent of the intricately insane, yet precise rhythms of Stravinsky. A Rahul Rohatgi column exudes the playful and entertaining bravado of Figaro’s boastful aria in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville...