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...triumphs among grand historical tales, has obviously studied his Kurosawa. Working on the script with Marshall Herskovitz and John Logan, Zwick brings the master's concentrated fury to his depictions of hand-to-hand combat; a certain raw, muddy brutality to Cruise's training for those moments; and both epic sweep and powerful detail to the big battles. By way of contrast, there is a handsome geometric austerity to the way Zwick and his director of photography, John Toll, show court life and intimate life in a Japan trembling on the brink of modernity...
Instant classic. The Feb. 1 loss had started Harvard on a 2-8-1 slump to end the regular season, so it was only fitting that the Crimson icemen completed their resurgence against the Big Red—in an epic game, no less, and one that is still on the books as the longest in Harvard history (96:11). Tyler Kolarik played the hero, squeezing the game-winner past All-American goaltender Matt Underhill at 16:11 of the second overtime, giving Harvard its first ECAC title and NCAA tournament berth in nearly a decade...
Harvard-Cornell hockey is still bigger news on the Cayuga than the Charles, but epic ECAC championship bouts between the schools the last two years have resuscitated the rivalry in these parts...
...Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating?even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book...
...cavernous hall of a dazzling white palace that rises out of the Indian Ocean, the tiny President of one of the world's smallest countries wriggles forward in his armchair, plants tiptoes on the floor and begins the story of his revolutionary days. It's a little-known epic of how a humble teacher endured oppression, rose to lead his island people against a tyrant and finally triumphed, uniting the palm-lined Maldives. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom wears a saintly smile as he stresses that he "did not seek" greatness but rather "a lot of people wanted me to be President...