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...positively feudalistic promotion system--it's easy to see how sumo wrestling could get to be a grind. But when AKEBONO, the first foreign-born wrestler to achieve sumo's highest rank, retired from the ring in 2001, it was huge news. The 517-lb. Hawaiian, born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown. "My zeal for combative sports never...
This time, Hoff’s first shot went off the crossbar instead of the goalie’s hands. But with the help of Tornaritis, he was able to corral the rebound and shoot it past Dartmouth goalie Rowan Anders for his team-leading seventh goal of the season...
...wide-eyed and ends it in a disturbingly potent way. Cassie Fliegel ’06, A.J. Wolosenko ’06, and Andrew Shimomura all turn in entertaining performances as Foustka’s sycophantic coworkers (Shimomura doing far and away the best job of the three), and Rowan Dorin ’07 does the same as a lower-level manager of sorts. Mike Hoagland ’07, as the director of the scientific organization (“The Institute”) in which Foustka works, is wonderfully stilted, and makes fabulous use of his body language...
...Church Divided U.K. Two days of crisis meetings in London between 37 Anglican primates failed to lift the threat of a schism in the worldwide church over the issue of homosexuality. In his attempts to keep the 70 million-strong Communion together, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams put aside his own personal views that same-sex partnerships, if stable and faithful, could be legitimate in God's eyes. His efforts were successful enough to secure a unanimous statement from deeply divided liberal and conservative primates. It warned that "the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy...
...opening of a spirited gathering in Dallas last week that often felt more like a tent revival than the rump caucus of a denomination sometimes known as "God's frozen people," Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh Robert Duncan wished Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, "the wisdom of Solomon." Williams, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, will preside this week over a meeting in London that may decide the future of the denomination in the U.S. and around the world, so he can certainly use the good wishes. But what gave Duncan's salutation its special bite was that...