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...disability that he became a rock drummer before turning to acting. April, a research scientist suffering from cherubism, a condition that causes severe facial disfigurement, is played by first-time actor and cherubism sufferer Victoria Wright. Peter Mitchell, another debut performer, had looked forward to a career as a top-flight soccer player before a car crash redesigned his life. He plays Dan, the wheelchair-using focus of Carrie's burgeoning lust. "My sexual relationship with Dan will really challenge people," says Stamell...
...other horse has combined success in the Arc - France's blue-ribbon event - with wins at top-flight English races the 2,000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby. What's more, Sea the Stars' two-length victory at Longchamp was his sixth in Europe's tough Group One races in as many months. The horse, says Frankie Dettori, a leading jockey who trailed Sea the Stars in the Arc, is "in a class of his own." (See pictures of British horse racing...
...wing or left-wing. By eschewing the ideological polarization that has paralyzed Latin America for centuries, he's helped forge one of the more successful examples of how developing nations can expand their underachieving economies while finally narrowing their often epic gaps between rich and poor. It has nurtured top-flight industrial giants like regional jet-maker Embraer, and 52% of its people are now in the middle class. And it is taking tentative but ever surer steps at asserting itself on the diplomatic front in global as well as hemispheric affairs. (Read about Brazil's higher-profile diplomatic role...
...theory, top-flight European soccer, with its loyal fan base and long-term contracts, should be shielded from the worst of the recession. Indeed, attendance across the big five European leagues - England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain - rose 2% in the season just finished. And German and English clubs will all enjoy new and improved broadcast deals in the coming two seasons. But that's not to say the downturn doesn't throw up stiff opposition. "Beyond that very affluent, élite core," says Chadwick, "the mood of austerity is still very, very strong...
...public universities like Michigan have been confident about their ability to attract enough wealthy out-of-state students to help fill their coffers. But it will become difficult to continue competing with private institutions if they cannot simultaneously expand their research capacity and recruit top-flight faculty. And the struggling economy is forcing even wealthy families to look for the best value for their tuition dollars. For just $5,000 more in tuition, an out-of-state student could forgo Michigan for New York University, the nation's largest private school with nearly double the number of faculty. In recent...