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...story of Petra von Kant is the enslavement of love. Petra, a dynamic dress designer played by the wonderful Margit Carstensen, dominates all around her until she falls in love with a younger woman (Hanna Schygulla). Her young lover soon rules her, and poor Petra is literally sent to her sickbed. Only when she falls out of love is her fever broken. Critics have speculated that the trusting, innocent title character of Fox and His Friends is Fassbinder's portrait of himself, particularly since Fassbinder, who is also a talented actor, played the part. His friends, however, know that...
Since early childhood, Erick Carstensen, 14, has suffered because of his stature: he is a victim of hereditary dwarfism. Brick's contemporaries, who generally towered over him, excluded him from their games. Teachers were often equally unsympathetic, calling him "Shorty" and browbeating him for his inability to keep up with his classmates in physical education. Even the doctors consulted by his parents provided little in the way of relief. According to Erick's mother, Mrs. Dorothy Carstensen of Los Angeles: "They'd all say the same thing: 'Don't worry about...
...judges awarded first place to Carstensen of Dartmouth, although the electronic timer indicated that Harvard's Tim Neville had swum the faster race by one hundreth of a second. Evidently, the electronic backup judging system, which is part of the timer, credited Carstensen with the first touch, and the judges went by that decision although the evidence was to the contrary...
...automatic timers had broken, and Cahalan was one of the three clocked in 21.4. But he was picked fourth by one judge, and since the other had disappeared, was given credit for two fourths. Cahalan was finally listed in a third-place tie with Dartmouth's Chris Carstensen...
Among the best races may be the 50-free (Harvard's Mike Cahalan, Dartmouth's Chris Carstensen), the breaststroke (Tim Chetin, Jack Dichard), and the backstroke (Dan Kobick, Jim Gottschalk...