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...what is now his signature style: commenting publicly on a taboo subject and inciting debate both on campus and across the country. Good for him. And in a move that is less likely to garner national headlines but may be just as important for Harvard undergraduates, Summers last weekend broke with recent presidential tradition to host an event solely intended to give students a few hours of enjoyable recreation...
DIED. JOHNNY UNITAS, 69, Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Baltimore Colts to a sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL championship game, still regarded by many as the greatest football game ever played; of a heart attack; in suburban Baltimore. Unitas broke passing records at the University of Louisville but was deemed too small by his hometown Pittsburgh Steelers, who cut him in 1955. The Colts found him playing for $6 a game in a semipro league and signed him to be their third-stringer. Two years later, his precise passes and menacing...
...other major Japanese film shown in Toronto, and arguably the most sublime film on view, was Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the animated fantasy that broke Japan's all-time box-office record a year ago and is now opening in North America. The People's Choice Award, voted by the festival's audience members, went to Niki Caro's Whale Rider, the New Zealand saga of a Maori girl who dreams of being her tribe's first female chief. It is an old-fashioned story smartly told, and enchantingly played by young Keisha Castle-Hughes...
Person of the Week Kim Jong Il, leader of communist North Korea, is having a hard time making totalitarianism pay. Pyongyang is apparently broke, so Kim issued an apology for the kidnapping of 13 Japanese in the '70s, hoping Japan would reciprocate with billions in monetary compensation for its colonization of Korea. Even evil has to pay the rent...
Morris’ 11-catch, 210-yard, two-touchdown effort was just another day in the office, though. It’s not like he broke team records for yards or receptions in a game...