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Minutes later, Shewchuk again raced up the ice. After a couple of nifty moves to free herself from defenders, she blasted a shot that would be the game winner...
...Brittany named Brill. "They were like George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men," remembers Wulf. "Brill was a small but brilliant hunting dog. Beau was big and not very bright; he always seemed to be asking Brill to tell him about the rabbits." Like the Westminster winner, Wulf's report on the show is both handsome and smart...
...lost his bet when someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create a naked singularity. "Stephen took a while to accept the result," says Preskill, but now Hawking has paid up: [pounds]100 (about $163), some "clothing to cover the winner's nakedness" and a thumbprint on a concession statement. The physicist didn't give in easily. The message on the T shirts he gave Thorne and Preskill reads, NATURE ABHORS A NAKED SINGULARITY...
Once upon a time, she was a Queen of England--on the TV screen--but now she's a hardworking Member of Parliament. Jackson, who has two Best Actress Oscars, and was a 1972 Emmy winner for Elizabeth R, walked away from movie celebrity in 1992 and won election as Labour's representative for Hampstead and Highgate. During a 27-year acting career, she suffered from extreme stage fright; she told the Guardian last September that "the longer I carried on, the greater the fear became.'' In the House of Commons, however, she is fearless. Proud of her working-class...
...this certain needs a build-up this long, mmm-hmmm. To its credit, though, "Sling Blade" plays out among real human beings, a welcome break in a year of airborne cows and impossible missions. A few swift cuts in the editing room and Thornton could have had a real winner. As is, "Sling Blade" is a worthy runner...