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...years, their paths through the amateur hockey circuit diverged, but their friendship remained unshakable. They weren’t teammates any more on the ice, but running with the same crowd off the ice, little else had changed...
...Vineys aren't the only adrenaline-fueled boomers who have taken to the ballroom circuit. Scores of others have been lured to the dance floor by the thrill of the competition, the beauty of the dance and the glamorous costumes that take them back to the bygone era of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. A nationwide renewed interest in classic dances like swing, salsa and tango has attracted many new competitors to the sport, says Ken Richards, director of promotions and publicity for the U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association (USABDA...
...circus. A universal smorgasbord." That he's delivered. By the end of the first week, there were the usual hits (The Overcoat) and misses (Night Letters). The former, a piece of bravura theater-making from Canada, mixes Buster Keaton with Gogol and - after seven years on the festival circuit - purrs like a Rolls-Royce. Letters, the State Theatre Company of South Australia's new four-hour adaptation of Robert Dessaix's intimate novel about a writer's "death" in Venice, looks good but wobbles without a suitably dramatic engine. And with some of the most anticipated works still to come...
...first time the former congressional-office receptionist had got a 911 call from a desperate politician. At a time when operatives can become as famous as the candidates they work for, Cahill's is not a name you hear on the cable-and-best-seller circuit. But few can match her record for turning around campaigns that are just this side of hopeless. And she was one of the few people left in Washington who shared Kerry's belief that his luck hadn't run out. "She felt it was winnable," Kerry told TIME. "She distinctly felt that...
...morning last week found the campaign's finance chief, Louis Susman, wandering through the buzzing hallways and asking if anyone could spare him a phone line. Which is why one of Cahill's next jobs is to find a new headquarters--say, one where she won't blow the circuit on the computers when she plugs in her space heater. Kerry still has to win the nomination, and Cahill takes nothing for granted. "The thing that is so clear about this election cycle is that you just have to keep on keeping on, because who knows what is going...