Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be understood only when researchers can come up with different categories of natural grass that have a fixed injury profile. But I believe that eventually softer natural-grass surfaces using a low-traction species (e.g. ryegrass) will be proven to be the safest surface. DR. JOHN ORCHARD South Sydney Sports Medicine Kensington, Australia
DIED. MORRIS WEST, 83, novelist whose characers struggled with faith and outlandish plots; in Sydney, Australia. Critics were unimpressed with his books--The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman among them--but West sold 60 million books worldwide...
...Harvard Crimson: How do you think your chances are? ANNE BROWNING: In terms of winning, you're competing against a couple national teams, so you really shouldn't! The United States National Team who's going to Sydney--yeah, they'll be here. But in terms of the collegiate level, I've felt good that we've been getting progressively faster, this year especially. We are trying to approach this fall in the same way we approach the spring which is a more intense racing season. Hopefully it'll pay off and we'll be able to bump some...
What director Sydney Pollack, one of the movies' great romantics (Tootsie, Out of Africa), saw in this lugubrious tale is even harder to imagine. There's no heat, wit or glamour in his telling of it. The movie is like bad gossip: a scandalous premise that comes to no interesting--or even amusingly ironic--point...
...flattered. The Bradley network is full of the high-profile people he has stroked and courted for decades: billionaire moneyman Herb Allen, media moguls Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, film director Sydney Pollack, Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio. They build support and raise money for Bradley, and in return he makes them feel good about themselves. Says Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: "I just feel better for knowing him." Bradley likes to say, "This is not just a campaign, but something more"--a high-minded mission. That sounds trite, until you see it in action...