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...Greg Shuman can add another honor to his first team All-Ivy status. Thanks to a vote of the Golf Coaches Association of America, Shuman joins an elite group of 16 collegiate golfers on the Ping All-New England Region team. Shuman, who led the Crimson with a 75.08 stroke average, is now eligible for the coveted All-American distinction. In his debut season, the rookie earned a top-10 finish in three of the Harvard’s nine events and broke 80 in every one of his 20 tournament rounds. At the Ivy League Championship, Shuman finished...
...rest, Schnabel's energetic true-life story of a man who learns to communicate after being immobilized by a stroke won the director prize. Satrapi's beguiling autobiographical animation shared the Jury Prize (third place) with Reygadas' very demanding, even more rewarding story of a Mennonite family in Northern Mexico. The screenplay citation went to the Akim film, the story of three parent-child relationships that get sundered; and if the script has more coincidences and withheld identities than a whole season of an American soap opera, it certainly held the interest and provided a showcase for some handsome performances...
...When Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of French Elle, suffered a stroke at the age of 42, he was rendered totally immobile except for his left eyelid. His condition, "locked-in syndrome," left his memory and sharp wit unimpeded, but Bauby had no way to communicate, and felt like a man in a diving bell, the captive of his enclosure, instead of a butterfly, with the blessed freedom of movement. He eventually learned to "talk" by the tortuously slow process of listening to his therapist run through the alphabet and blinking when she spoke the right letter...
...board's polyglot membership adroitly. He knew the board would have trouble reaching a consensus about his fate; he knew that its members were divided internally; he probably also figured that they were reluctant to take firm action knowing such a move could trigger other investigations into small-stroke favoritism inside the largely oversight-free World Bank...
...Powder-puff tennis was over. Eventually, the other pros began to match her power, and injuries began to nag. Williams can still bring it, but this year she's more likely to play a little finesse for the first six shots or so, saving the blast for stroke seven or eight...