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...Guild chose Daniel Day-Lewis and Renee Zellweger as statuette sure shots. As for "Gangs of New York," you might not have picked it for Best Film vote, but you also didn't guess that the Martin Scorsese picture would win exactly as many Oscars as "Jackass: The Movie" - zero. (And I know a couple of people who think "Jackass" wuz robbed.) "Far from Heaven," another critics' favorite and the winner of five Independent Spirit awards the night before, also was shut out. The savants at goldderby.com averaged only about 50% in their picks of the top eight awards...
...media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero new victims are still falling ill and dying. One local doctor estimates that the true figure of those afflicted is probably double the official statistic. Across the country, in cities as far-flung as Nanjing and Beijing, medical staff are whispering that a strange pneumonia is also popping...
Dartboard was frustrated and saddened by the permanent loss of one of the dining hall’s few redeeming features for the un-caffeinated sub-population among us. Diet Sprite is the holy compromise soda for Dartboard—it offers the opportunity for guilt-free, zero calorie consumption, an opportunity to avoid caffeine while still drinking something sweet and bubbly, and most of all, a replacement beverage for those who hate the plain, non-taste of cold filtered water...
Just as important, most of the foreign imports "are complete players, not specialists," notes Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, now an analyst for ESPN. The Europeans, in particular, are typically taught the basics by iron-willed coaches who have zero tolerance for showboating or big egos. The players learn to handle zone defenses, which, unlike man-to-man, require every player to hit the outside shot. And pressure doesn't faze them...
...heroic young men went first. Others would follow. Some would move on to even greater accomplishments. This is their story, as told from the point of view of participant and event organizer Abraham R. Kinkopf ’04. Zero time...