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...THOSE OLYMPICS, YOU FINISHED FOURTH, JUST SHY OF A MEDAL. HOW DISAPPOINTED WERE YOU? I was definitely disappointed going home with no medal. I was disappointed in not skating a perfect performance. At the time, I was devastated, crushed that it didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to win. I didn't want to be fourth, third or second. But it was my first major international event, so I learned a lot from...
Jack Kenny, Daniel's creator, says he set out to tell the story of "a family man, a regular guy who's trying to do good." Making his protagonist a priest raised the dramatic and moral stakes. "A priest's family is supposed to be perfect," he says, "so anything anybody does wrong becomes heightened." As for adding Jesus to the ensemble, he says he did it not for shock value but as an outgrowth of what he was taught growing up as a Catholic (he now considers himself Christian but belongs to no church): that one should have...
...decided to be perfect in 2006? Andrea Sachs (a.k.a. Galley Girl) surveys the fresh crop of self-help books to get you started down the road of self-improvement in the coming year...
...also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles, the first in their class to reach land. Contact, of an edgily entertaining sort, ensues. It's a treat to see the pitch-perfect work of two grand troupers: Frances Sternhagen, hopping about like a perky tern, and George Grizzard (Nick in the original 1962 production of Virginia Woolf), who's equally convincing as either a cranky-adorable coot or a statesmen to the lizard world. As seascapes should be, this one is sunny...
...assists against just two turnovers. Fast becoming a household name in the Hub, the freshman came off the bench to pour in 13 points on 4-of-5 shooting, nailing all three of his attempts from downtown. Rice also created the game's most breathtaking moment, tossing up a perfect lob pass for fellow frosh Haynes to catch and slam through the basket with two hands. The dunk by Haynes, who also finished with 13 points off the bench, capped a 19-6 run that gave the Eagles a 78-44 lead, its largest to that point, with...