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Until now, that is. Jackman, 35, has spent the past three years assembling a sturdy little pre-movie-star career, adding a few heroes in turmoil (notably Wolverine in the X-Men movies) to a clutch of swoony romantic interests (in Kate & Leopold and Someone Like You). His next project, Van Helsing, in which he plays a 19th century monster hunter, will be the first movie in which he's the main attraction. So what does Jackman do while waiting for its release? He takes on Broadway in an unknown show called The Boy from...
...That clutch defending was put to its greatest test as the first half wound down, with the Big Red driving inside the Harvard five-yard line with under a minute left...
...walk into her now empty kitchen—remembering her whizzing around, tirelessly creating culinary masterpieces from yesterday’s scraps, while carrying on endless conversations about anything and everything. I clutch the pot holder I crocheted for her in the second grade, which she kept in a place of honor. It’s nearly five in the morning, and no one has gone to sleep. My grandfather, pacing, stops and sees me. He gives me a shaky hug and tells me to rest in the last bed not occupied by my parents, brother and aunt...
...helpful he's being, we're slowly prepared to concede that Mr. Truong is not a spook after all. As it turns out, he's not even a Party member. He's just an anxious guy with unfortunate hair. He also doesn't know how to work a manual clutch-though he never admits to it. Our Vietnamese colleague Mai, tired after six days on the road, asks him to ride her Minsk while she takes the jeep. The going is particularly mountainous, and heading uphill Mr. Truong keeps getting stuck between gears. We pass him several times...
...spite of clutch efforts here and there, Harvard sorely needed the complete game that eluded it early...