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...Jeff Bond, former head psychologist at the Australian Institute of Sport, uses the term "pedestal syndrome" to group all the factors that make some athletes believe they can do virtually as they please. League players are especially prone to it, he argues, because theirs is a contact sport: "They're fit, they think they're indestructible." They've also made it in a sport that has recently begun to reward its players lavishly and long encouraged heavy drinking when celebrating a win. Most players are decent people. But they're also younger, richer, more idle and more full of themselves...
...Gibson has snorted his derision over the two earlier Jesus films that have earned the most sustained critical acclaim. Asked a year ago by TIME correspondent Jeff Israeli for an analysis Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Il Vangelo secundo Matteo," (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) he faked a big yawn. Of Martin's Scorsese's "Last Temptation," he said, "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying" - and here Gibson shifted into a Brooklyn accent - "Hey, you ovah dere." Maybe his was just dissing his strongest competition. He knew that these films were closest to his, in setting, rigor, power...
...Vermont’s skating game lies in the speed and puck-handling skill of forwards Jeff Miles and Brady Leisenring, both of whom have totaled 33 points this season. Containing Leisenring and the speedy Miles was something Harvard failed to do in Burlington; Miles, the former Catamount captain, had a goal and two assists in his team’s loss, and Leisenring added a goal and the assist on the Miles’s goal...
...midfield, Harvard is looking to overcome the loss of two of its highest-scoring midfielders in Wich and Logigian. But the increased depth of the Crimson is extremely evident here, as seniors Jeff Gottschall and Alex Vap—who won over 60 percent of their faceoffs last year—are joined by a hoard of younger contributors, including juniors Zach Chandis and David Patterson and sophomore Tom Boylan...
...sent share prices up nearly 3%. Analysts say Alitalia's long-term survival requires merging with a larger carrier. The company had hoped to piggyback on the Air France-KLM deal, but was told it first needed to move toward privatization. Even Letta might not pull that off. - By Jeff Israely while you were sleeping U.S. mobile-phone operator Cingular landed its U.S. rival AT&T Wireless, trumping British bidder Vodafone with a late-night offer of $41 billion. The deal creates the largest wireless carrier...