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...hawks can fly. This one can do a heart-stopping double somersault in midair and then land on a tiny, moving plank of wood. But ask Tony Hawk, 18, what it takes to pull off an inimitable skateboard stunt and he blithely answers, "You just get the courage up and do it." That combination of aggressive athleticism and laid-back languor?lassitude with attitude?has propelled the lanky 6-ft. blond from Carlsbad, Calif., to the front of the professional skateboarding pack. Hawk (his real name) has won all three of the National Skateboard Association titles previously awarded...
...simple reason. In the beginning, the festival was a home for the homeless, for a rambunctious outlaw take on filmmaking. There was no need to be cautious, since indie films were rarely hits. But as Sundance became the showcase for a form of movie gaining marketplace pull, young directors naturally made films to fit the new mold. Sundance films weren't quirky; they did quirky. Quirky became another genre...
...John Young, who writes the blog Cryptome.org, was also contacted by Wikileaks' organizers and asked to sit on its advisory board. He too declined their offer. "Their idea is a good one, but they're moving too fast without providing any evidence that they can pull this off," he says. Young gave Wikileaks a taste of its own medicine by leaking the organizers' e-mail exchanges with him on his own blog...
...worst-case scenario would be a dragged-out battle that produced high civilian casualties and ignited anti-U.S. anger among Shi'ite masses--just as the battle of Fallujah did among Sunnis in 2004. Sadr's forces could also melt away and bet that the U.S. will pull back again. It's not a bad gamble: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the surge isn't likely to last past August, in part because of waning public support for the war. On a just-completed trip to Baghdad, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh told al-Maliki that Americans...
With influential backers like former Princeton President William G. Bowen and former Harvard Corporation member Hanna H. Gray, the personable chemist may be asked to pull off the task again...