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...want to, and the state's leaders know that. So, as if by rote, they recite the advantages of living in Utah: low crime, great mountains, those five national parks, a tech-savvy population with the nation's highest per capita ownership of computers, and 45-min. access to world-class ski resorts from the center of Salt Lake. Yet the image of Paradise Postponed persists. The Mormon presence is always there in the background, a faint theme song that never gets turned off. "My parents think I am insane to live here," says Katherine Glover, 36, an urban planner...
Though Lambert is a world-class runner in the 100, he has had little experience running indoors in the 60. His current time is short of what he would need to even meet the NCAA provisional qualifying standard of 6.72 seconds. Lambert said that even if he were to qualify for Indoor NCAAs, he would not compete because his focus is on the outdoor season...
...exporter of world-class talent, France now outshines Brazil and Argentina, which have traditionally dominated the trade. Football's French Foreign Legion has more than 100 professional players, over 40 of them in the English Premier League alone. And lest you think the high volume is a result of low value, consider this: 11 of the 50 candidates shortlisted for last year's European Player of the Year honors were French, as were five of the 11 footballers on uefa's 2001 European all-star team. Once the perennial underachiever of world football, France has capitalized on the bountiful flowering...
Think of them as the by-products of the French football factory: the production line that spews out a plethora of outstanding players also churns out plenty of world-class coaches. The World Cup will serve as a showcase for the country's managerial surplus, with Frenchmen at the helm of four of the 32 squads bound for Asia. "It's a great tribute to the French development system," says former French star Didier Deschamps, who last year ended his playing career to become head coach of Monaco. "Since national teams can't recruit French players, they recruit French coaches...
...scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment - and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...