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...author's customary beat is major league politics and journalism (The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be), and his usual tone is portentous. But in this canny change of pace, David Halberstam becomes a miniaturist, examining the claustrophobic world of competitive rowing...
What goads them? What makes former Harvard Oarsman Tiff Wood keep training into his 30s? Why does onetime Yale Rower John Biglow ignore severe back pain to continue his training? Why is Brad Lewis, a brooding Californian, so determined to beat the Ivy Leaguers at their own sport? Certainly it is not money, and surely it is not fame. Halberstam, who took the time to get to know the oarsmen in their boats and onshore, offers some provocative answers. They are not likely to make the sport or the sportsmen popular, but they provide valuable insights into the psychology...
...searched long and hard for the right location because the Saturn project is not just another auto plant. It represents the company's best and perhaps last chance to beat back the Japanese challenge. Though wholly owned by GM, the factory will be the centerpiece of an entirely new company called Saturn Corp., which will have its own executives and engineers and a separate network of dealers. GM's plan is to give its new offspring the freedom to use advanced technology and flexible labor practices to erase the $2,000-per-car cost advantage that the Japanese enjoy...
...touching, 5-min. animation titled Tony de Peltrie. Created by a design team from the University of Montreal, it depicts a once famous musician who sits at a grand piano in the middle of a hardwood floor, tickling the keys and tapping his white leather shoes to the beat of his memories. In striking contrast to the awkward, robot-like characters in earlier computer films, De Peltrie looks and acts human; his fingers and facial expressions are soft, lifelike and wonderfully appealing. In creating De Peltrie, the Montreal team may have achieved a breakthrough: a digitized character with whom...
...Maccabees were good athletes,” Cohen says. “They beat the whole Assyrian army with, like, three [people...