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...Grass. Though it is the only major championship still played on grass, the tournament remains the one that every player wants to win - because being Wimbledon champion means becoming part of history MOTOR RACING A Fine for the Ferrari Shuffle It comes to something when the excitement in Formula One happens in an office in Paris rather than on the track. A meeting of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) fined the Ferrari team and drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello $500,000 for causing the biggest rumpus in the sport's recent history. At the Austrian Grand Prix...
...will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!” Camera pans to cheering, saluting fighter pilots—a foolproof formula for getting even my grandfather, who claims he would have killed himself if he knew the war would last so long, to feel patriotic goosebumps on his wrinkled arms...
...formula works. Papa Roach sold 3 million copies of its tortured debut album, Infest, and in this follow-up the band is going right back to the well. It's not worth debating whether Shaddix's scars are real. The point is he believes he has them. On Black Clouds he screams, "Confession of depression/This life I'm second-guessing/Like ashes to ashes/I always seem to fall down." On She Loves Me Not he decides that "I'm the jerk." Subtlety is not his forte, and numbness takes over after a few lovehatetragedy tracks. It's a shame, because...
...Carefree," "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" - but their roles were pretty constant. Fred was nature's nobleman, Ginger the plucky girl who made good by dancing well. It didn't matter that the films' plots were aggressively silly, the dialogue often inane. The musical numbers had a formula too: Fred courting Ginger, pursuing her in song and dance, while she ponders her ethical or emotional reservations to dancing-romancing; he approaches, she retreats. But when the music swelled, and Fred took Ginger by the hand, and she leaned into his body, and the dance began, a more beautiful...
...formula is a hit for Law & Order: rip a legal case from the headlines and make it into drama. Now two reality series, NBC's Crime & Punishment and ABC's State V., are cutting out the middleman and giving us the headlines straight from the courtroom...