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...Winnipeg native dispelled any concerns after her bravissima showing against longtime rival Anni Friesinger of Germany in the 1,500 m. "I just got really wired, had a coffee, felt really on fire--completely different than before the 3K," Klassen said. At the Lingotto Oval, compatriot Kristina Groves, who would take a silver, set the time to beat before Klassen and Friesinger hit the ice, thrillingly paired side by side. When it was over, Klassen had skated so smoothly and powerfully to capture gold that a stunned Friesinger glided over to her rival and gave...
...reward to gold medallists. In figure skating, at least, this commercially driven program is churning out champions. Three nights after the Russian pair claimed gold, Siberian native Evgeny Plushenko, whose childhood rink had closed for lack of funding, captured Russia's fourth consecutive gold in men's figure skating. (Compatriot Irina Slutskaya is also favored to win this week's women's event.) The 23-year-old Plushenko, whose choice of the Godfather theme for his long program was rather cheeky at a Games hosted by Italy, was equally bold on the ice, opening his routine with an awesome combination...
...rest of the Irish band called U2 seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their songs have the phantom soul of the Band, the Celtic wonderment of their compatriot Van Morrison and some of the assertiveness of punk, refined into lyrical morality plays...
...this argument sounds familiar, it should: Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto expresses a similar view in “The Mystery of Capital,” which pinpoints a lack of formal property rights as a main culprit behind the developing world’s stagnation. Like his compatriot, Vargas Llosa heaps praise on the ingenuity of Latin America’s poorest, especially the shantytown residents who have organized to provide basic services to the disenfranchised. Still, he considers them incapable of generating the sort of structural change key to breaking the region’s cycle of misery...
...sporting beard and beret, found in so many dorm rooms and poetry lounges. This is Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael García Bernal) in his mid-20s, before he was Che. The film picks up Guevara’s life in 1951 as he embarks with his compatriot, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on his travels—powered, initially, by the namesake motorcycle, of course—bound for the southern tip of South America. He is a far more accessible figure, and his journey radiates a certain lost-soul aura to which even a hardened...