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...didn't always seem that they would develop such a passion for the sport. Janica was only three when she first put on skis, but her mother later recalled that she didn't seem to be a natural: "She was falling all the time and getting in the way of all the other kids on the slope. We thought she'd never learn." In the early 1990s Ante started taking the children to junior ski races around Europe. Money was so short that they slept in tents, or in their car when the weather got too cold, and Janica missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two For The Snow | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

Glimcher has always allowed his instinct for the art that he knows and loves to have free reign. He has no ambitions beyond following this passion. “Art is my obsession,” he said after the lecture. “Of course I had no idea I would rise this high. You just put one foot ahead of the other...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping Pace For Forty Years | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

Glimcher has always allowed his instinct for the art that he knows and loves to have free reign. He has no ambitions beyond following this passion. “Art is my obsession,” he said after the lecture. “Of course I had not idea I would rise this high. You just put one foot ahead of the other...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping Pace For Forty Years | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...broad scope of The Good Men does not make its characters shallow, nor does it muddle its message. It claims to be “a novel of heresy,” but it is truly a novel of sexuality. It brims with sexual passion and desires, both realized and unfulfilled, in the life of every character, each one wrestling with longings that are forbidden by Church and heretics alike...

Author: By Benjamin W. Olson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Medieval Pleasures of the Flesh | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...unassailable and it seems that this might be the key to getting Lucy back. Dawson’s fatherly devotion certainly makes a strong impression on Harrison, whose relationship with her own son is predictably in tatters. Soon, Harrison is fighting for Dawson’s cause with a passion...

Author: By William K. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: sam, i am | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

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