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...continue in Formula One when his contract with Ferrari runs out in 2004. Until then, the racing looks as if it will stay boringly predictable. GOLF Epic Contest O thou Golfinia, Goddess of these plains, Great patroness of Goff, indulge my strains So wrote Edinburgh legal clerk Thomas Mathison in 1743 in one of the first books to describe the game that began with players hitting pebbles across sand dunes and rabbit holes in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland, sometime during the 15th century. Mathison?s 32-page work, The Goff, written in the satirical form of an epic poem...
...Spielberg’s traditional and self-importantly mawkish fashion. The story is a simple one—boy (Elliot, played by Henry Thomas) meets alien (E.T.), boy befriends alien, boy helps alien escape the authorities and return to his people. Within this framework, Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison craft a fair tolerance parable that teaches its lesson with brevity...
...customer's investment goals and assets. But this long-awaited cybersuitability rule doesn't mean that do-it-yourself investors who sign up for a stock picker's e-mail alerts can start blaming the messenger. "The customer is setting the parameters, not us," says Schwab spokesman Glen Mathison...
Proving he's the smartest celebrity in the world, HARRISON FORD decided to save the announcement of his separation from E.T. screenwriter MELISSA MATHISON, his wife of 17 years, until Election Day, when most of the news outlets were occupied with other things. (If only Hugh Grant had been sharp enough to have gone for a drive on Super Bowl Sunday...) Following proper Hollywood protocol, Ford and Mathison released a joint statement through his agent: "We have been living apart for the past month. We sincerely hope we can work out our differences." Separation rumors began swirling when Ford...
...Alan Mathison Turing was born in London in 1912, the second of his parents' two sons. His father was a member of the British civil service in India, an environment that his mother considered unsuitable for her boys. So John and Alan Turing spent their childhood in foster households in England, separated from their parents except for occasional visits back home. Alan's loneliness during this period may have inspired his lifelong interest in the operations of the human mind, how it can create a world when the world it is given proves barren or unsatisfactory...