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...advent of women's wrestling as an Olympic event has moved the sport to the élite ranks. The U.S. took two medals--a silver for Sara McMann and a bronze for Patricia Miranda--at Athens in 2004. Women's wrestling is growing in the U.S., where girls have gradually gained access to the mat, thanks to Title IX's gender-parity provision. Schools are required to give the girls a shot with the boys if there aren't enough females or funding for a girls team. And so about 7,000 female students from grade school through college...
...Patricia Miranda, the bronze medalist at Athens in the 48-kg class, says her matches against males, which continued through Stanford, were invaluable to her development as an athlete and a woman. Wrestling offers "tremendous benefit for the female population," she says. "Girls learn the value of hard work, accountability and self-worth, things you can't get from magazines, boys or other girls." Although she won just once in her college career, she maintains that the only way for women to gain parity in the sport is through continued access to matches. If that means wrestling boys...
...then, to more mainstream projects. What about Steven Spielberg’s take on H. G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, awaiting a June 29 release, in which Robbins shares the screen with Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, and Dakota Fanning? The residents of late-Victorian Britain felt the brute force of interplanetary colonialism in Wells’ classic science fiction novel, and Robbins is the first to admit that Spielberg’s contemporary update, set in America, might have some underlying relevance to the current geopolitical scene...
Sophomore No. 4 Audrey Duboc held a 2-0 game advantage over Miranda Ranieri, including a thrilling 10-8 second-game win, but then seemed to lose momentum. Ranieri easily claimed the next three games 9-1, 9-1, 9-0, to the roaring delight of the gathered Yale fans...
...without her knowledge, they are legal. "It's not particularly tasteful," says attorney Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil-liberties group, "but people need to be aware that whatever you do in a public space can be recorded." Ladies, watch your back. --By Carolina A. Miranda...