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...crew.A former Canadian hockey star and standout all-around athlete, senior Anton Wintner competed in rugby, track, football, basketball, lacrosse, and hockey before he even got to college. But when Wintner arrived at Harvard, it was time to pick up an oar.“Rowing was one sport I had never done,” Wintner said. “I came to Harvard, and the only sports you could just pick up and walk on to were basically track and rowing. I decided that I had a little bit better of a physique for rowing than for running...
...football ring elicits comments from the other patients anymore. Johnny's always still talking, joking and nodding, though - and the other patients still like him. There is a gift, some kind of divine favor that fills the air around him and it's not the football. Charisma, star quality - I've learned a little more about this good but mysterious thing since treating him. I doubt it's rubbed off on me, but I have forgiven myself for taking the extra minutes with other patients, even during busy office hours, to hear the stories...
...England's Jonny Wilkinson is brave in defense, obsessive by nature but composed when it counts, and, of course, a deadeye. But the fact he was a star of the tournament while his Kiwi counterpart, Daniel Carter - who has every skill a No. 10 could wish for - disappeared without trace says much about where rugby is. The game's crying out for less kicking and more running. A radical idea: except where foul play has occurred, penalty kicks at goal should be permitted only from within the opposition 22. (And league has it right with its single-point field goal...
...Amnesiac.” Cokemachineglow.com ran a hilarious feature a while back called “The Top Twelve Songs on ‘OK Computer.’” That’s the level of canonization we’re dealing with here.With the five-star, 10.0 ratings, we’re borrowing against the future interest we’re betting these albums earn.But for once, the Something defining a Radiohead album might be immediately identifiable. If “OK Computer” revivified rock and became an undisputed classic...
...through a vehicle of images and sound are often restricted by Hollywood’s expectations. RIGHT TO WRITE King did add some hope and praise for his colleagues, though. “People who write short stories are gunslingers,” King said, possibly referencing The Gunslinger, star of his magnum opus book-cycle, “The Dark Tower.” “We’re out on our own, freelancers, soldiers for hire.” “We don’t need a happy ending if we don?...