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...points. And there’s a reason that opposing squads consider Magura the epitome of a pest. Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 consistently uses the Fargo, N.D. native on the team’s penalty kill, and the pivot’s sheer disregard for his own body has made him one of Harvard’s most successful shot blockers. And then there’s forecheck, where Magura’s fitness and doggedness wreak havoc on teams’ abilities to set up. He’s been at it a while. Magura...
...With a well-thumbed contact book, an overflowing diary and sheer bloody-mindedness, Estens is traveling around the state in his six-seat Cessna on a new assignment: lifting his troops for the next phase of expansion, and marketing the organization to corporate leaders. Although the federal government has given the AES funding for the next four years, the contract allocates too much money for training and not enough to cover the new management structure of a larger agency. Estens also expects AES managers to be creative and productive in earning revenue - through job placements, traineeships, security work and sponsorships...
...Pantheon.In choosing to present rather than to judge Rousseau’s character, Damrosch effectively frees the reader from judging. People who have heard of Rousseau sometimes feel compelled to stake out one of two positions on his personal failings. Either he was an unbearably nasty man who, by sheer happenstance, wrote books that have inspired humanity for two centuries, or he was a saint pushed into his crimes by the cruel circumstances of his age and the treachery of his so-called friends. This biography lays out Rousseau’s entire collection of sins against, and services...
...fill in the blanks,” he says.Cusack agrees that with this script, the fun of the process was formulating a complex back-story for his character. “You get to kind of create a human,” he says.FREEZE FRAMEFor Ramis, his sheer love of directing kept him motivated. Though he’s spent some time in front of the camera—most notably in “Ghostbusters,” which he also co-wrote—he says “direction is the best.” Nevertheless...
...Chinatown” had come out the year before, and later that year he would appear in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” for which he would receive an Academy Award. Here, in the role of journalist David Locke, his sheer charisma in the role enthralls and sucks in the audience. His shark’s grin is as present as ever, and he wields it recklessly, bringing credibility to a character that would surely appear flat and lifeless in less talented hands. David Locke is a journalist covering a conflict...