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...Sept. 29 news article, "For Sports, Admit Policy Not Binding," misidentified the sport played varsity athlete Sara M. Flood '10. She is on the lacrosse team, not the field hockey team...
...James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. A dilatory student at Sydney University, he drew cartoons for an off-campus magazine and drank with the Sydney Push, a group of young swells that included future writers Germaine Greer and Clive James. "I would sport a black beret," he recounts, "and wear a black duffel coat over a black turtleneck sweater, which would render me indistinguishable, I thought, from leading existentialists like Albert Camus." One day the magazine's editor fired the art critic, pointed at Hughes and yelled, "You're the cartoonist. You ought...
...airline pilot, was killed there along with other shoppers when a deranged gunman opened fire. But Pearson soon finds out that the shooting wasn't so random, and that the mall provides far more than loyalty cards and a climate-controlled shopping environment. The Metro-Centre has its own sports stadium, its own soccer, rugby and ice hockey teams. Armies of their supporters wearing St. George's crosses - England's national flag - surge from mall to match to trashing immigrant neighborhoods. "Whenever sport plays a big part in people's lives," says an overworked doctor in the local casualty ward...
...what did happen? We're sure the mystery will deepen as the sport channels try to wring news out of it; they were already digging up players on other teams who said Owens had been depressed in years past, although he says it's not true. At his daily press conference, Cowboys coach Bill Parcells stated that he had not talked to Owens. "I'm not sure I know the whole thing," the coach said. He was, however, adamant that the coaching staff was not involved in pain medication. Pressed for more information, he said, "When I find out what...
...incident, as portrayed in the leaked police report, is a peek into the life of one of the NFL's most gifted, yet most troubled, players on the field. He is the Dennis Rodman of the sport, a great athlete, a winner with an outrageous personality. Owens began a stellar career with the San Francisco 49ers, standing out as a star on a team that had begun to lose the luster of the Joe Montana Super Bowl years. Owens was known for his outsize behavior, including pulling a felt pen from his sock to sign a football after catching...