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...film, directed by video phenom Alek Keshishian, trails Madonna through Japan, North America and Europe as she pursues her hobby (rock star supreme) and her full-time job (do-it-yourself mythmaker). This is show biz, remember, where image elbows achievement out of the frame. Madonna knows this. She is the most self-aware, perhaps the sanest, of celebrities. So Truth or Dare doesn't dwell on what she has done. We know she has done plenty, done well and, in her AIDS-relief fund raising, done good. Keshishian shows us what Madonna thinks she is -- and what she, driven...
...teammate's small son, who looks at the casket and says, "Is my daddy in there?" The second is the query of a friendly sportswriter who asks whether the pitcher realizes he may never recapture his skill. "Yes" is the bitter double answer. Smoke, indeed, from a fireballing phenom...
...Harvard men's hockey team did just that in beating league-leading Clarkson last night, 5-3, at Bright Center. The Crimson's two Teds--Captain Donato and sophomore phenom Drury--each potted a pair of goals to help Harvard keep alive its home-ice hopes...
...Crimson's hopes for the meet rested in the 200-yard breaststroke, but Harvard could manage only a fourth place finish behind Princeton's freshman phenom Nelson Diebel, Leroy Kim, and Josh Snyder...
...free agency and oversize payrolls. Staying at the top is next to impossible. "Everybody thinks he's underpaid," sighs Alderson. Owners of other teams, of course, think Alderson is paying too much -- not just for his stars but for minor leaguers. This summer the A's signed high school phenom Todd Van Poppel for $1.2 million...