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Except there is no stage--anyway, not a stable floor. Instead, a void, out of which some ethereal miracles materialize. Many of them take place on two huge surfaces: a 1,250-sq.-ft., 175-ton slab (known as the sand-cliff deck) and a smaller one (the 900-sq.-ft., 40-ton tatami deck) that can simultaneously lift, rotate and tilt. Thus the actors must perform many of their maneuvers while the earth is literally moving under their feet. (If they fall off, there's a 60-ft. drop out of sight and onto an airbag.) Other scenes occur...
Princeton shot a gaudy 61 percent from the floor in the second half, a figure that would normally be good enough to shore up a win. But Harvard routinely beat the Tigers to the ball, and limited them to one shot and out on offense. Princeton grabbed only five boards after intermission to the Crimson’s 17, and Harvard didn’t allow the Tigers to score a single second-chance point...
Tigers guard Scott Greenman rushed down the floor and fired up an irrelevant jumper that didn’t come close to falling...
...lead role, Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai is pretty as a picture--a still picture. She appears always to be fluffing her hair for the next fashion shoot. She's got moves on the dance floor; and in the sumptuous and catchy score by Anu Malik and Craig Pruess, she smartly sells a few numbers that try to update the Austen ethos ("I just wanna man who gives some back/ Who talks to me and not my rack"). What she can't yet do is suggest a complex spirit behind the lovely fa?...
...after the U.S. and Europe reached a temporary agreement to avoid a trade war over aircraft subsidies, TIME's SALLY B. DONNELLY sat down with Boeing's CEO Harry Stonecipher in the 34th-floor executive conference room of the company's downtown Chicago headquarters. Despite the reprieve from a trade fight, he continued to question the launch-aid loans that Boeing's rival has historically received--and plans to continue to receive--from European governments. "Airbus is all grown up and making money," he says. "Why does it need subsidies?" Here's what else the 30-year aerospace veteran...