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...Steps. He's out of juvie and trying to go straight as a landscaper-slash-high-school student. Unfortunately his buddy X-Ray (another Holes alum) gets him back into trouble over a ticket-scalping scheme. And when a chance meeting gets Armpit mixed up with a teen pop superstar (the tickets were for her concert), things get complicated. It's a fairy-tale setup, but Sachar gives his characters real emotions and real problems, and the result is a surprisingly wise book that never cloys or condescends...
...RESIGNED. FLORENTINO P?REZ, 58, after almost six years as president of Real Madrid, the world's wealthiest soccer club; in Madrid. Although the Spanish team spent more than $300 million signing superstar players like David Beckham, Zin?dine Zidane and Ronaldo, it has failed to win any major championships in nearly three years and has suffered a string of defeats in recent months. "I cannot ever regret having enjoyed the soccer of the world's best players," P?rez said upon announcing his resignation...
...reprise the show's minor weaknesses as well as its major strengths. There's another inside-Hollywood detour about the movie ambitions of Christopher (Michael Imperioli). (Though it does deliver funny lines: Chris describes his screenplay idea as "Saw meets Godfather II.") And subplots involving fundamentalist Christians and a superstar rapper are tendentious and cardboard. (The latter recalls a season-one story about how hip-hop culture fetishes mafiosi...
...don’t write better when I’m stuck in the ground,” and “All our friends, they’re laughing at us,” are some decidedly unhappy lyrics, particularly so from the newly-married leader of a superstar group whose concerts sell out in eleven minutes. The Strokes seem to have lost some of the joie de vivre displayed on their 2001 debut “Is This It?” and 2003 follow-up “Room on Fire.” Hopefully, this newfound...
...lose, Cindy Klassen defies the ego-charged image you might expect of a world-class athlete. Shy and laid back, the speedskating superstar doesn't carry herself off-ice like the fiery locomotive that she becomes when she's racing. Klassen had the engine going full bore in Torino, taking five medals, which, added to a bronze from Salt Lake City, make her the winningest Canadian Olympian ever. Although a favorite to win multiple medals heading into Torino, her jittery performance in the 3,000-m event during the Games' first week got the doubters going...