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Apparently, sophomore point guard Drew Housman was not satisfied with torching Princeton after halftime just once—he had to take the Tigers to school all over again. Two weeks after scoring a career-high 33 points in the Harvard men’s basketball team’s...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Princeton Can't Contain Housman | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as Chieko, a deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett at first assumed the 26-year-old Japanese actress really couldn't speak. It's the kind of talent that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Rinko Kikuchi | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

What did the role teach you about being deaf and mute? I learned that about half the people who are deaf have a positive attitude. Some think of it as part of their identity. Even if you were not deaf and mute, if you went to a foreign country with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Rinko Kikuchi | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

Optimists who believe the talks may actually get somewhere this time say the basic tension underlying the Bush Administration's stance toward North Korea - does it want a nuclear deal with Pyongyang or does it seek to punish it via isolation and sanctions - has been resolved. As a senior Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deal on North Korea's Nukes? | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

One afternoon in January 1971 I was summoned to the interrogation room once again. The call was so unexpected that my heart was pounding with excitement as I followed the guard. At the door of the interrogation room, the guard suddenly gave me a hard shove. Five more guards crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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