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...addition to running the point, she averages 5.7 points per game. Moore, always a shrewd and careful ball handler, also commits very few turnovers—1.625 per game—in spite of her ample playing time and Harvard’s propensity to turn the ball over...
...film bears absolutely no resemblance to Japanime or any Disney movie, and is undoubtedly the best animated feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members...
...film bears absolutely no resemblance to Japanime or any Disney movie, and is undoubtedly the best animated feature released in 2003. Sylvain Chomet’s film aims for a multinational texture and is largely devoid of dialogue, but nevertheless retains a distinctly French sensibility with a penchant for shrewd cultural allusions. A clubfooted widow, Madame Souza, trains her chubby grandson Champion to become a stick-thin cyclist with the help of bulky canine Bruno and her restless whistle. One day, Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members...
Roberts, 44, keeps his ego in check and his checkbook handy. The trim, bespectacled executive is renowned as a shrewd bargain hunter and corporate strategist. "He's one of the most likable people, but whoever sits on the other side of the bargaining table should have a healthy dose of fear," says Terry McGuirk, vice chairman of Turner Broadcasting and a longtime friend. Roberts, an all-American squash player at the University of Pennsylvania, has a "black belt in strategy," says McGuirk...
...world gets nostalgic for great men. Plutarch felt similarly wistful around A.D. 100, when he wrote his wonderful Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans--shrewd side-by-side comparative biographies of dozens of bygone political characters: Demosthenes and Cicero, for example, Caesar and Alexander...