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...academy is in the Himalayan foothills north of Islamabad, but the weather is still brutal: 95[degree]F by midday. First the cadets have to traverse a mountain carrying logs on their shoulders. Then they run nine miles with full gear to an obstacle course that forces them to swing over ditches, haul themselves over walls and slosh through an artificial swamp fed by a guy hosing water from a truck. Some recruits do the course in 2 1/2 hours. Others collapse along the way. Those who reach the finish are allowed five rounds to hit a target...
...close to losing even that. As Indian movies become glossier and younger, producers feel that extras should also be glossy and young. Members of the Junior Artists Association, living on the brink at the best of times, where owning a decent shirt can swing the job, have no place in this new cinematic order. The work is going instead to college kids hunting for pocket money or youngsters looking for modeling jobs. These newer, more glamorous extras are called "models." They may be more expensive, but producers feel they are worth the price. "If I need a scene...
...first Williams had a wild swing that often, eerily, found the ball. Later, observed Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski, "he studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market." Williams treated the game as a science and a fine art, weighing his bats on a postal scale, massaging them with olive oil and resin. When he said, "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders," he was speaking of a sharp eye--to read the seams on a curve ball and then smack the cover off it--and a UNIVAC brain that held all relevant data on a rival pitcher...
...Ichiro could only have dreamed of when he played in Japan. Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe has never lost a player to America and speaks often these days about "sports patriotism." But Hideki turned down a long-term contract last year and has spent this season making adjustments in his swing, some say, to prepare for the majors...
...It’s been going on always and forever,” said Mildred M. Yuan ’04, who is the Harvard Ballroom team president, and is teaching a swing class this summer...