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Once the foundation is laid, the teams undergo a process akin to a visual artist picking and priming his tools as they prepare for competition. CDT first chooses a choreographer based on an intense selection process. “It involves watching more YouTube than you can imagine,” Prince says. The captains then suggest music and a theme to the choreographer, who comes back to the team with a set two-minute routine. Even so, the members sometimes tweak the piece to fit their vision and showcase their dancers’ strengths. A winning routine is often...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athletes and Aesthetes | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Columbus Short and Chris Evans co-star as two members of a five-man team that spend the movie kicking butt and taking names. Short plays Pooch, the laid-back, family man who acts as the team’s driver while Evans is Jensen, the smart-alec computer whiz...

Author: By Eleanor T. Regan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘The Losers’ Win Hearts and World War III | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Spurning the chairs the team had laid out for him, the athletic director opted instead to stand—a move that Gertler said set the tone of the conversation—and said that while Bajwa did have a strong record on the court, breaches from administrative protocol, an inability to be a “good community member at the athletics department,” and recruiting deficiencies forced the department to part ways with the squash veteran, according to Gertler...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, Alex Sopko, and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Despite Success, Coach To Leave | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

When you hear the word intern, you probably don't think of people like Kristina Shands. For starters, she's 38. And she had notched 10 years of experience as a fundraiser at a nonprofit in Tennessee before she was laid off last year. But now that Shands is considering moving into sports management, she's interning with the Knoxville Ice Bears hockey team, writing game summaries and handing out stats on game day. She devotes about 10 hours a week to the Bears, and she does it for free. "I'm getting to see the inner workings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working for Free: The Boom in Adult Interns | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...warm February afternoon and the sun is streaming through the open doors of a large, airy farmhouse set at the far end of a guarded estate outside Libya's capital, Tripoli. Trays of dates and almonds are laid out in the living room, where the owner of the house, relaxed in a traditional North African robe and slippers, sips orange juice freshly squeezed from the fruit trees outside. All is a picture of prosperity and calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Gaddafi's Son Reform Libya? | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

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