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...analogies for actual conflicts that demand clean resolution. Having tackled football and baseball with a fair degree of success in Remembering the Titans and The Rookie, Disney moves down its list to hockey, in particular the U.S. Olympic hockey team’s triumphant victory over the world champion Soviet team in the 1980 Games. But Miracle makes a valiant attempt to transcend the trappings of its saccharine genre, and largely succeeds with the prescient casting of Kurt Russell as team coach Herb Brooks. Russell, whose dusty film resume has been given a sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts...
...career has followed an eccentric path. A junior swimming champion, Gelmetti initially studied composition and classical guitar before finding a mentor in the somewhat mystical figure of Sergiu Celibidache, the Romanian-born conductor who famously declared that recorded music was like kissing a dead woman. As principal conductor at the Stuttgart Radio Symphony and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Gelmetti later found success - but not fame. Instead, when the SSO's then artistic administrator began telling international arts managers about Gelmetti's appointment in 2002, "many of them had never heard of him," Calnin recalls. "I think it's because...
...team walks down that path. Harvard is 5-1-1 this season when he scores a goal. Over four years, that figure jumps to 27-9-4—the kind of record over a hypothetical 40-game season that you might expect of a national champion...
...undefeated Bulldogs (10-0, 5-0 Ivy) beat Harvard (5-3, 4-2) 7-2 at Yale on Saturday, claiming national and league glory as well as the Barhite Cup, given to the regular season dual-match national champion...
...Bulldogs—who earlier this season shocked 2002 and 2003 national champion Trinity 5-4—proved too much for Harvard to overcome. Though the Crimson will still play Yale as well as its other vanquishers—No. 2 Trinity and No. 3 Princeton—in the Howe Cup this weekend, the Ivy title is, for this year, out of reach...