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...with—there’s more to life than grades, extracurriculars and, yes, sports. I may have been motivated at certain times in my sportswriting career by different forces. I have filled the role of the little sister, the overachiever, the bitch and the token Asian-slash-female. I’ve done all that, and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world. But after all the cat fights, production problems and mediocre copy that I’ve churned out, I know that those small roles add up to one big payoff...
...This year, that changed with a bang. And a slash and an ouch! After a 2003 festival that was widely derided for its turgid batch of competing films, Cannes's chief programmer Thierry Fr?maux promised that this year's selection would be less stodgy, more Hollywoody, more fun. That meant two things. First, the jury president had to be from Hollywood. (One insider said Tarantino got the call only after Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep had respectfully declined.) Second, for films that offered serious fun, Fr?maux had to look to the East...
...Butts E.U. farm ministers agreed to phase out production-linked subsidies for the region's tobacco growers - located largely in Greece and Italy - by 2010. The deal for so-called Mediterranean crops will also slash subsidies to cotton and olive producers...
...There are too many problems for success to come swiftly - if at all. Madagascar is one of the four poorest countries in the world, and poor people tend to value their own survival over that of an environment that has for too long been regarded as an inexhaustible resource. Slash-and-burn farming still continues, as does the hunting of lemurs. "We have yet to overcome some deeply ingrained cultural habits," explains Vololoniaina Jeannoda, a researcher at the University of Antananarivo's Botanical Laboratory. "But people, especially the young, are starting to accept that we can't keep up this...
...He’s a sort of idealistic and naive 18-year-old kid. It’s not that hard to remember what that was like. Harvard people have that bipolar, idealistic-slash-skeptical character, so it pretty much...