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Instead, his script, a spare, character-driven retelling of Mary and Joseph's trip to Bethlehem, was rushed into production by New Line Cinema and entrusted to an edgy director with a knack for youth culture, Thirteen's Catherine Hardwicke. Despite the challenges of reconciling Scripture with story, casting actors to play icons, constructing a Christ-era Nazareth in the Italian countryside, wrangling donkeys and camels, and figuring out how to market the first major-studio Bible epic since the genre's peak in the 1950s and '60s with films like The Ten Commandments, The Nativity Story will arrive...
ITHACA, N.Y.—Much like Michael Jordan repeatedly saved his best for the Utah Jazz, Cornell blueliner Doug Krantz is developing a knack for crushing the spirits of the Harvard men’s hockey team. In many ways, the Crimson’s late collapse in Friday’s 3-2 defeat could be compared to Harvard’s 4-3 loss to the Big Red on November 11, 2005—almost exactly a year ago. In both games, the Crimson held a late lead. On Friday, senior Kevin Du potted a power-play...
...playing on a team with such a high level of talent.”As the captain of Southridge School’s team last year, Brawn had 12 goals and 18 assists.RANDI GRIFFIN and AMY UBERRandi Griffin, a native of Apex, N.C., is a proven talent with a knack for goal- scoring. Last year she led all scorers at the U-19 national tournament.But college hockey is a bit different.“The biggest challenge has been keeping up not physically, but mentally,” Griffin says. “Decisions have to be made...
...When Reese was voted captain in the spring, the selection came as no surprise. Ever since his sophomore year, the defenseman had drawn comparisons to former Crimson skipper Noah Welch ’05. Both blueliners presented a dual threat to opponents, blending a knack for scoring with a willingness to go nose-to-nose with top-line forwards.But most importantly, like Welch, Reese skated with poise and self-assurance, something not lost on his former road-trip roommate.“Dylan’s got a lot of confidence,” noted Welch...
...does the average investor perform so much worse than the average fund? The answer is timing--bad timing. People have a knack for stampeding into a sector as its performance peaks, only to suffer the impending decline while missing the rally. So the average investor's money, often earmarked for important future needs like education and retirement, grows at a slower rate than it would with a simple buy-and-hold strategy...