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...important factor. “The breeze was very light on Saturday and very breezy on Sunday, so it was two extreme ends of the spectrum. There were a lot of lead changes, and some really close racing.” Johnson and fellow junior Kristen Lynch placed ninth in A-division racing with 120 points, while seniors Vincent Porter and Ruth Schiltz managed fifth in the B-division with a score of 42. “We’ve been sailing pretty well lately, I think I just had an off-week,” Johnson said...
Phoenix dropped out of school after ninth grade and finished his teens traveling in Latin America. When he returned to acting five years later, he earned raves as the mumbling killer in To Die For and an Oscar nod for his weaselly turn as Commodus in Gladiator. Walk the Line director James Mangold says both performances were seared into his memory. He noted that Phoenix looked like the young Johnny Cash, but he was more intrigued by another resemblance. "That incredible vulnerability and masculinity that James Dean had," says Mangold, "Joaq has the same thing. His face is complicated...
...high court will deliver its opinion on a pair of federal appeals-court decisions supporting the practice. Last spring Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote a fire-breathing opinion to overturn Washington's assisted-suicide ban on behalf of three plaintiffs who had already died naturally. Choosing a dignified death, Reinhardt asserted, was a constitutional right under the 14th Amendment's due-process protection of personal liberties and the principle of privacy defined in the court's abortion rulings: "A competent, terminally ill adult" should not be forced to endure "a childlike state of helplessness, diapered, sedated, incompetent...
...Beethoven’s greatest moment of glory, however, was still to come with the public performance of his Ninth Symphony in May 1824. For anyone that has heard it before (or at least seen the unspeakably horrible Starz movie network commercial that uses it), the music is undeniably majestic. Morris writes that “for the rest of the century, symphonic composers would struggle in vain to write anything that sounded bigger.” Beethoven, deaf and facing the orchestra, did not realize the audience was enthusiastically clapping until a teenage soprano turned him around...
...said. “It’s a very different game depending on how much breeze there is, and given that it was so breezy, Clay and I had an advantage, and we were able to put on a lot of speed.” The Crimson finished ninth in the B-division with 166 points, and 15th in the D-division with a total score of 250. Knowles’ D-division score, however, comes with an asterisk attached, as he had just found out on Thursday afternoon that he would be filling in for sick co-captain...