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When people describe Annika Sorenstam, they say she's consistent, efficient, mechanical, driven. Makes you wonder: Are they talking about the world's No. 1 female golfer or a Volvo? And when you meet her, you also wonder whether this nice grinning woman in the lime-green golf shirt really could be a sporting machine...
There is often a bleak beauty to Marooned in Iraq's landscapes. But pictorialism aside, it is a unique experience--abrupt, jagged, almost childlike in its ever shifting tones. Driven equally by wayward and bestartling incidents that blow up and blow away, and by an old man's abiding passion, it's a film that is exotic in its rhythms yet utterly comprehensible in its humanity. You'll have to seek it out in its limited release, but no current movie is more worth the effort. --By Richard Schickel
...Augusten Burroughs was driven to drink by Bewitched. "I worshipped Darren Stevens the First," he writes in his new memoir, Dry (St. Martin's; 293 pages). "When he'd come home from work, Samantha would say, 'Darren, would you like me to fix you a drink?' He'd always rest his briefcase on the table below the mirror in the foyer...and say, 'Better make it a double.'" Burroughs would uncap one of his father's liquor bottles, upend it with his hand pressed over the top, then recap it and lick his palm...
...auto-driven race to capitalize on new growth, which European semiconductor manufacturer is best poised to win? Europe's biggest semiconductor manufacturers - STMicroelectronics and Infineon - are ranked fourth and seventh in the world respectively. Each company is pursuing a different strategy. Infineon is determined to maintain a range of products from the highly cyclical drams - a computer chip that acts as a temporary storage depot for data while the computer performs a task - to "logic" chips used in devices such as mobile phones. Meanwhile, Schumacher hopes to offset the downturn in the dram cycle by being strong in logic chips...
...absolutely deplorable that students would be driven away from a popular and enlightening class—with a very talented teacher who actually reaches out to undergraduates—because they feared tougher grading. The primary purpose of grading is to provide feedback and encouragement for students to seek knowledge to the best of their abilities. The purpose of grading is not to please alumni, or to prove that Harvard is tougher than other schools. Grading is certainly not designed to discourage students from seeking knowledge they otherwise would—and yet that is exactly what Jasanoff?...