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...with the enormous shock of Sunday's massacre that left at least 34 dead. Memorial services in Hobart drew hundreds of mourners, and the Prime Minister says the nation has been "shaken to the core." Martin Bryant, the man accused of opening fire on the group of tourists in Tasmania, is sedated and being treated for burns in the same hospital where several of the people he wounded are recovering. The staff there is on edge after anonymous callers threatened the nurses and doctors who are treating him. "There is a great deal of anger against the man," says TIME...
...when he arrived in 1978 with his family in Armidale, a small town in New South Wales. Now his English has only a slight trace of a Vietnamese accent, and he is training to be a surgeon -- one of Australia's first medical specialists of Vietnamese origin -- in Launceston, Tasmania. He has easily moved into the society he has come to call his own. Nguyen's sister married an Australian of Irish descent; one of his friends is a Greek who taught Nguyen Greek folk dancing at his wedding...
...what in simpler times was called masculinity. No wonder the role lured some of the cinema's top exemplars of derring-do. Douglas Fairbanks (1922), Errol Flynn (1938) and Sean Connery (1976) made memorable glosses on the English lord -- and no matter that the actors hailed, respectively, from Colorado, Tasmania and Scotland. Fairbanks soared, Flynn grinned, Connery smoldered, and each struck singular movie sparks...
...learn," Smith explains. "They end up dealing comfortably with maps and the ability to decode information from maps, to use an atlas, read latitude and longitude." The class accomplishes this in an atmosphere of controlled chaos. Students throw questions at one another as they pore over their material. "Does Tasmania belong to Australia?" shouts one student. "Since Greenland belongs to Denmark, does that make Copenhagen its capital?" asks another of no one in particular...
...again at Henley with the Crimson eight and try out for the Goodwill Games in a four with Bernstein, senior Keir Pearson and sophomore Peter Morgan. After that, it is back to Cambridge, where Sharis and Bernstein will train for this year's world championships in October in Tasmania...