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...There's a paradox there. His movies are no more stimulating visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin - OK, we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke - and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the ineluctability of American innocence. Odd that it takes a sardonic nobleman to remind us of that. Odd but exhilarating...
...students or alumni have competed in every one of the modern summer Games. In fact, James B. Connolly, Class of 1898, brought home the first medal of the modern games in what is now the triple jump, but what was then called by the impressive title of the hop, skip and jump...
...ceremony's artistic director, David Atkins, later quipped, "You can't get Brazil to march in straight lines." Then, as the evening moved into overdrive, there was diva Tina Arena's deep breath, and wink to the orchestra, before she launched into "The Flame," Gould's girlish skip and Freeman's giggle. Sydney doesn't like to stand on ceremony, and as the flame was hoisted, the golden girls grouped together and chatted as if at a family barbecue...
...every woman will be able to do this initially," says Dr. Freedolph Anderson, who is leading the study. Some women, for instance, may at first experience breakthrough bleeding, something that often happens when women skip periods using standard birth-control pills. But with some fine tuning, women can learn to turn their cycles off and on to suit their busy schedules. And if all goes well--and if the Food and Drug Administration approves--Seasonale, the first pill produced for that purpose, could reach the shelves of U.S. pharmacies...
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. yesterday denied suggestions in The New York Times that he and business partners sold the educational website Africana.com to Time-Warner because it was in financial distress...