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DIED. Molly Ivins, 62, acerbic commentator, whose columns skewered the high and mighty; after a seven-year fight with breast cancer; in Austin, Texas. Ivins, who famously referred to George W. Bush as "Shrub," could write with heartfelt earnestness yet just as naturally refer to height-challenged politicians as "runts with attitudes." The three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in a recent column on Bush's troop surge, offered what could serve as her epitaph: "Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous...
...confirmed his hunch, for he caught on with Bob Pender, who managed a troupe of boy acrobats as if it were a kindly, disciplined, extended family. Young Archie learned acrobatics, mime and, above all, the joys of camaraderie and the need for collegial generosity. At the height of his career, he would remain the least narcissistic of actors, always willing to share scenes and to take a chance with some undignified business if someone thought it would work...
...feared his neuroses were the source of his talent. "I didn't have to worry. I remained as neurotic as ever but got a clearer perspective." He found the process so helpful that he still sees counselors from time to time, one on each coast. "That's the height of luxury," he says. "Matching analysts...
...injury history—he completely missed his sophomore campaign with a stress fracture in his foot and sat out parts of the last two seasons due to various setbacks, including a broken hand. And his weight trouble was also a factor in his inability to fully capitalize upon height and interior presence to dominate smaller Ivy League big men in the paint.Cusworth worked all of last summer on bulking up, however, and his physical strengthening in combination with an increased aggressiveness down low has led to a breakout campaign. Despite suffering a jammed finger that still requires a splint...
...Australia's literary heritage was not so lucky. Gone were many of Hall's slavishly hand-written manuscripts and letters, including his lifelong correspondence with English writer Robert Graves. Fire couldn't erase Hall's favorite memories of the place, including a visit from Salman Rushdie at the height of his fatwa, but recently his family made the difficult decision to put the property on the market after 32 years. "What we couldn't face was the shell of the house without all the things that made it what it was," he explains. "If you built it again, it would...