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The�parallel�wasn't�lost�on�anyone: the kid was Rocky. Najai (Nitro) Turpin, 23, was one of 16 boxers chosen for The Contender, an NBC reality show featuring Sylvester Stallone as a co-host. Like Sly's character, Turpin had come up against the odds in a rough part of Philadelphia. The show's producers even taped Turpin running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in triumph, just like Rocky. "They always told me, 'You're gonna have to fight your way out of the ghetto,'" Turpin says in a voice-over. "That's what...
Maybe the kid's all right after all. In the fall of 2003 investors were screaming nepotism when media mogul Rupert Murdoch installed his son James as chief executive of BSkyB, the British pay-TV powerhouse that is 36% owned by Murdoch Sr.'s New York City--based News Corp. But earlier this month James, 32, wowed them by reversing a two-year skid in Sky's year-to-year quarterly subscriber growth. "Murdoch Jr. is doing fairly well, to be honest," says John Hayes of London-based F & C Asset Management. That's high praise from a fund that...
...hand, the story is filled with events familiarly annoying from everyday life and thus accessible. Wouldn’t you just like to turn the bad-smelling kid from section into a giant bar of soap? The drawings also define the story. Without the pictures, there would be no way of seeing the underlying pathos to a seemingly funny situation. The embodiment of God’s wrath is unarguably pathetic as Corrigan is left alone to stare at his Rookie of the Year photo, while his police comrades go home to loving wives...
...gadgets that start coming to him in dreams. Zipping around the city in a jetpack, he tries to save lives. Problem is, he’s not so good at it. His wild powers end up causing more trouble than they prevent. In a typical example, he saves a kid by shouting “full stop!” at an oncoming train, but inadvertently shuts down the NYC subways for hours. Despite his single success—diverting that second World Trade Center plane on September 11—he retires his gear...
...When he does open his mouth,” says Tyler Kolarik ‘04, Cavanagh’s Harvard teammate for three years, “Tommy’s a good guy, a great kid...