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Marcello Burricks is not your typical America's cup yachtsman. Raised in a rough, mixed-race township on South Africa's Cape of Good Hope peninsula, he had to prove himself as a street fighter long before he ever climbed aboard a sailboat. In his early teens, he fraternized with local gangs and got in knife fights. These days, however, he puts his strength into grinding winches and helping to trim the mainsail of a sleek, 25-m America's Cup?class racing yacht. Burricks' journey from local tough guy to élite sailor is just one of the remarkable...
...different cultures can work together, challenging the top countries in the world." After the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Ainslie took a job as a high school teacher in the navy village of Simon's Town. There he met Golden Mgedeza and Solomon Dipeere, both teenage naval cadets from Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Ainslie nurtured their passion for sailing, and offered free lessons to other poor black and mixed-race kids in the surrounding townships. Burricks was one of the keenest. "We had to chase him away to get him to do some schoolwork during exams," Ainslie recalls. For Burricks, sailing...
...Within this internationally acclaimed South African film, Hood brilliantly finds a sympathetic, yet not syrupy sweet, way to embrace life’s tragedies and also showcase its victories. Street-hooligan-turned-gang-leader Tsotsi, played by Presley Chweneyagae in his debut role, is from a township (ghetto) outside of Johannesburg, South Africa’s golden metropolis. Tsotsi (which in Afrikaans means “Thug”) bumbles out of his existentially meaningless life of violence when he steals a car and only later discovers a baby in the back seat...
When she arrived at Harvard as a freshman, Crimson forward Shana Franklin brought an impressive resume to the table. Three conference championships during her career at New Trier Township High School outside Chicago, including titles in 2001 and 2002 when she captained the team. Five consecutive Illinois state titles with her AAU team. First-team All-State selection. Nike All-American.“She could shoot, put it on the floor, and she was a very smart player,” recalls Crimson women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, who remembers watching Franklin as a high...
...months-and after 15 years in the corporate world, I don't miss any of it. As a stay-at-home dad, I'm reaping rewards far superior to anything I could ever receive in an e-mail, memo or cell-phone call. Robert Fuller Bloomfield Township, Michigan...