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That's where Scorsese is king. His Hollywood films may be sprawling, but his best docs feel both organic and perfectly condensed. No Direction Home, even at 31/2 hr., seems the ideal length to capture the gentle, questing mood of early-'60s folk and Dylan's rapid rise to eminence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scorsese's Moonlighting Gig | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...Woods' swing into thousands of frames, precisely comparing his technique with that of their students. Within a few years of Woods' breakthrough victory, a new generation of professionals - armed with swollen, explosively powerful golf clubs and almost flawless swings - began arriving at Augusta with games that matched Woods in length, if not in inspiration. Golf had changed, and the course had to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Living History | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...enough that they squeaked out of it with a win, but there were some underlying major problems,” Stevens said. On the other hand, the novice eight won the day with a 6.6 second margin over the Hoyas, stretching its lead to an entire boat length at times. “Georgetown is a team that didn’t have a very strong program but now has gotten better each year,” Kolb said. “I think winning against the Georgetown novices wasn’t a small thing...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Joyce, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fine Tuning for Harvard in Opener | 3/31/2008 | See Source »

...With two close matches still in progress, Harvard needed to take at least one to earn victory. Clayton and Ermakov did not shift focus as quickly as their teammates and, after dropping their opening sets at first and third singles, these upperclassmen knew they needed a maximum length match to get the win. Kumar had complete confidence in his teammates. “Chris is a warrior,” Kumar said. “Even when he has lost the first set, he’s the one guy who I still believe will come back and win under...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Singles Wins Help Crimson Take Match | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holger Geschwindner | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

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