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Reginald Vel Johnson, TV's lovable Carl Winslow, makes the leap from television sitcoms to his first feature role. In Chocolat, he plays Shawn Kemp, a 330-pound power forward who struggles with his eating problems and his confinement to the Portland Trail Blazers bench. He also cannot spell the foods he loves so much because, like so many NBA players today, he made the leap to the pros before he finished school. Of course, that was back when he could leap...
...meant to be. The story comes on fast, and the images too. In the past, Pope's fragmented stories and pictures made for impressive-looking but unreadable books. This time he got it right, with a straight enough narrative to pull you along while you leap from image to image, barely holding on. It's like crossing a river on chunks...
...Gyorffy--who still holds a share of the NCAA indoor record of 1.97 meters in the high jump--chose to compete at the biannual IAAF World Indoor Championships in Lisbon for her native Hungary rather than defend her NCAA title. On Friday in Lisbon, she placed fifth with a leap of 1.93 meters...
Gyorffy, who hails from Hungary, is one of the most decorated athletes in Crimson history. Last year, she tied the NCAA indoor high jump record with a 1.97-meter leap at Heps and went on to win the NCAA indoor title. This current season got off to a late start as she took the first semester off to compete in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where she cleared the 1.89-meter bar but could not get past the 1.92-meter mark in her three attempts...
Since returning to Harvard, she has been consistently the 1.90-meter mark. As a result of her recent 1.96-meter leap, she decided not to defend her NCAA title from last year and instead compete in the world championships...