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...that discipline pays off onscreen. Maguire is one of the world-champion under-actors. He never overdoes a scene, never overplays a reaction, never bullies you into feeling an emotion he doesn't earn. "One of the things that distinguishes Tobey as an actor is his ability to do more while appearing to do less," says Hanson, who directed him in Wonder Boys. Look at him once, and it's hard to tell he's even acting. His face barely seems to have a muscle in it. But you can't look at him once. There's something alert...
Dershowitz portrayed himself, by contrast, as a champion of calm evidence, saying the weight of the Dowd Report meant the jury would have to believe in “a vast, vast conspiracy” to conclude that Rose had not gambled on the Reds...
...interviewers he was not in favor of an Iraq war. Such a public declaration - almost unheard of among elite U.S. athletes these days - is certain to improve his standing on the Continent. Also, Armstrong might get some real challenges on the road this year. Jan Ullrich, the German 1997 champion and four-time runner-up who missed last year's Tour because of a knee injury, remains a threat. And this year's Giro d'Italia winner, Italian Gilberto Simoni, who sat out the last Tour because of a drug suspension that was later overturned, promises to be another contender...
Jeffrey Ron Gu ’00, a fun-loving champion of racial justice, died June 6 in a hiking accident in Venezuela, shortly before his 25th birthday...
...cherish Peck is to admit nostalgia for an era when popular and political culture could champion humanist ideals without smirking. If our time were not so facetious, so often corrupt, that time--and this man--would not seem so precious...