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...after junior outside hitter Kaego Ogbechie tore her patellar tendon, some of that anticipation shifted to worry as nobody knew when the 2002 Ivy League Player of the Year would return...
...Troy is one of the biggest, craziest movie gambits since Titanic. It's not just that the film required some 1,500 battle-trained extras or that production was plagued by war, hurricanes and frothing Bulgarian weight lifters or even that Pitt, playing the legendary Achilles, injured his Achilles tendon. It's also that the odds of a movie of Troy's scope making money have never been longer...
...critical fight between Hector and Achilles was scheduled to be shot just before production wrapped, to give Bana and Pitt extra time to practice their swordsmanship with renowned stunt coordinator Simon Crane (Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan). But a few days before the fight, Pitt damaged his Achilles tendon--an irony he can laugh about now, though only a little. A few days later, Hurricane Marty, the second hurricane to hit the production, blew down the walls of Troy. The walls were rebuilt, and Pitt's leg healed, but shooting was suspended for three months, during which both actors...
Mann, on the other hand, thanks modern medicine and healthy practicing for the longevity of his career. He says he may be the only professional violinist still performing after undergoing two rotator-cuff surgeries. The great Jascha Heifetz ended his concert career when tendon weakness in his right arm prevented him from bowing properly. These days, medical specialists have myriad techniques for keeping performers in playing shape even as their bodies age and muscles weaken. Musicians with dystonia, for example, who often suffer from muscle spasms, now receive experimental new movement and drug therapies...
...intelligence and how President Bush acted on it. Neither the CIA nor Bush can be squarely blamed for the intelligence failure. It was probably the result of a communication problem. The CIA views the world in shades of gray, but the President sees things as black or white. JOEL TENDON Cortaillod, Switzerland...