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...with a 5:49.7 time, compared to the Crimson’s 5:52.0. “I think we knew going into it that it would be a tough race,” Rasmussen said. “I mean, this early in the season, our coach, Charley Butt, told us to just go out and row our best.” In other boats, the third varsity finished 27 seconds behind Cornell at 6:30.7, and the second freshman eight beat Cornell and Penn with a time of 6:11.4. The first freshman eight was disqualified for passing...
...next? Star in an action film, obviously. With “Shooter,” a thriller about sniper Bob Lee Swagger—who is framed in an attempted assassination of the president—Mark Wahlberg returns to a rough-and-tumble role similar to the butt-kicking captain he played in “Planet of the Apes.” But according to the actor, moviegoers can expect to see a very different Wahlberg this time around. SNIPER SCHOOL “It’s an extremely difficult job,” says Wahlberg about...
...Hebrew Hercules fought such he-men of the 1930s as George Temple (Shirley's brother) and the 465-lb. Man Mountain Dean, whom the agile Coleman once lifted in the air before the pair crashed through the ring. Among Coleman's moves: the airplane spin, the flying head butt and his trademark "kangaroo kick"--an assault on an opponent's jaw that he allegedly learned from marsupials when he toured Australia...
...from his home in Tel Aviv, it is Franz Kafka. "Kafka tries to reach his moral goal by disorientating the reader," he says. "A short story in this style is like a slap in the face." If Kafka offers a slap, Keret's stories are more like a rifle-butt blow to the jaw. In one tale, the protagonist spots a woman walking down the street and sees, a second later, "the tip of a knife sticking out of the front of her neck...
...youngish male stars are mostly light comedians. Wahlberg could be the actor that action movies have been looking for since Sly, Arnold, Harrison, Bruce, Jackie and Jean-Claude - all in their 50s or 60s - got too old to execute the leg lifts necessary to kick bad guys in the butt...