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...Waltz. But it has its own fascination. The film is less about the music than about the dedication of show-biz troupers--about doing your job, year after year, as if it's your joy. Jagger and Keith Richards, no less than Ethel Merman and Henny Youngman, have the veteran performers' love of pleasing an audience with routines that used to be antic but are now antique. By now, surely, they have performed Satisfaction more times than Judy Garland sang Over the Rainbow. Yet Jagger sells it with the vigor of a Baptist preacher in a backwoods tent. In these...
...freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien.HARVARD 4, SAN DIEGO STATE 3Down 3-1 overall, it looked as though Harvard’s promise to itself that listless play wouldn’t slow it down would go unkept only three days after it had been made. But then, three of its most veteran players—Ermakov, Nguyen, and Clayton, each playing their third set—turned the tide, kept the promise, and carried their team to a 4-3 win against San Diego State in Santa Barbara on Friday.“UCSB was a slingshot,” Rueb said...
...first half and never looked back as they continued to pepper the opponent’s net. Although Redlands’ net minder Lauren Ellsworth racked up 14 saves, it wasn’t enough to prevent the barrage of attacks by Harvard’s veteran players...
...Hamilton, meanwhile, is the sport's most compelling presence. The handsome, doughty 23-year-old and F1's first black driver was bold yet rock solid last year right from his first race. Some of the former kart champion's overtaking maneuvers had veteran observers shaking their heads in astonishment. A comfortable winner in Melbourne before a fifth-place finish in Sepang, where Räikkönen dominated, last year's upstart is one of this year's favorites. Will Hamilton have the mettle to cope? Sound judges are sure of it. "Every now and again a talent comes...
...like installing automated Verismo espresso machines. By no longer having to scoop and tamp coffee for each shot, baristas could make a drink 40% faster, moving customers through lines more quickly. Drive-throughs became standard, and the company released its first CD. Smith's successor was a Wal-Mart veteran, Jim Donald, who took the company into books, movie promotions and oven-warmed breakfast sandwiches, which added about $35,000 to the average store's $1 million annual sales...