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...Emperor's Shadow covers some 30 years in the lives of two boys: a sturdy kid who will become the Emperor and his sensitive friend who will become the musician Gao Jianli ? think Jimmy Cagney and Pat O'Brien in Angels With Dirty Faces. Both are suckled by Jianli's mother and raised as brothers. When they're 10, they're separated for pursue their different and colliding destinies. In maturity, the warlord (played with a bull-headed majesty by Jiang Wen, China's leading movie actor) hears than Jianli (Ge You, a stalwart of several Zhang Yimou films...
...PAT ROBERTSON, religious broadcaster, on his prediction that terrorists will attack the U.S. in late...
...time." The clear favorite to win in Melbourne is Federer, whom Cooper can see eventually passing Sampras' record majors tally of 14: "If he maintains his motivation he could end up as the greatest player of all time . . . he hasn't got a weakness." With only two majors, Pat Rafter doesn't qualify as a great, but Cooper marvels at how, as a pint-sized 13-year-old, the Queenslander tried to play a serve-volley style that was beyond him. "But all that lunging he did as a little bloke set him up," Cooper says. "He grew into...
...record, including a defeat of 2006 EISL Champion Princeton, but left with their first loss of the season. The Crimson (5-1, 4-1 Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League) won 13 of 16 events—including 13 of 14 races—in defeating league foe Navy. Juniors Pat Quinn, Sam Wollner, and Geoff Rathgeber led the Crimson with two individual victories each. Harvard picked up points immediately, as it took first and third in the first race of the day, the 200 medley relay, and followed with the top two finishes in the 1,650-yard freestyle, which Wollner...
...York City, seems to be making only a half-hearted bid. The Mile High City is seen as a good jumping-off point for a West eyed hungrily by Democrats. Of course, Denver has long been a Democratic stronghold - with Mayors John Hickenlooper and Federico Pena and Congresswomen Pat Schroeder and Diana DeGette - though the state of Colorado can tilt red or blue, depending upon the whims of independents. The past election marked a transition from Republican Governor Bill Owens to Democrat Bill Ritter. Nevertheless, Denver's effort to win the '08 convention has been stalled because of Taylor...