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...probability and statistics at the University of Maryland; his mother works at NASA. Brin from an early age was fascinated with numbers; his father gave him his first computer, a Commodore 64, when he turned 9. Brin's other love is gymnastics, and he studied flying trapeze at a circus school in San Francisco. He has lately taken up springboard diving. Michael Brin recently visited the West Coast to check in on his son, the billionaire. "Sergey was a good boy," Michael wisecracks, "when he was asleep...
...Qaeda. I'm the enemy. This trial is a circus." ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, the only person brought to trial in the U.S. for involvement in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, while being ejected from the courtroom on the first day of jury selection in his trial. He was thrown out four times over the course...
...family was having dinner. "Emily expressed her wishes for a quick recovery for Michelle, and was also excited to be part of the US team," said David Raith, executive director of the US Figure Skating Association and the first to inform the Hughes family. By early morning, the media circus had already set up its tents outside the Hughes home in Long Island, New York, and the family had to unplug its phone at 4am so they could get some sleep...
Perhaps the biggest change is that the new rules don't reward those circus-leap triple Axels to the exclusion of other skills. That benefits skaters like Meissner who have the big tricks but are more analytical and calculating enough to maximize their point totals with the minimum amount of exhausting big tricks. Under the new code of points (COP), as it's called, there is no hiding a weak spin, sloppy footwork or poor basics. It's a far more demanding and exacting measure of an athlete...
...TIME: You've been here before to Sundance with The Good Girl. Were you expecting the circus...