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Brenda Lee, you simple simpleton. Albert Pujols, MVP? Over Barry Bonds? Pujols may be 16 years younger and the chic pick, but the award is given to the most valuable player. No one is more valuable than Bonds, to any team—possibly in the history of Major League Baseball...
...with the departure of Cornell’s seven seniors and Hobey Baker Award finalist goaltender David LeNeveu, the edge in experience has shifted...
Despite losing leading scorer and Patty Kazmaier award winner Jennifer Botterill, Harvard returns many talented players, including sophomore forward Julie Chu and senior defenseman Angela Ruggiero, both of whom were selected for the preseason all-conference team...
DIED. JOHN RITTER, 54, Emmy Award-winning actor who energized the racy (for the 1970s) hit ABC sitcom Three's Company as the goofy, bumbling Jack Tripper, a straight bachelor living platonically with two women; of a coronary-artery tear; in Burbank, Calif., after collapsing on the set of his latest hit show, 8 Simple Rules...for Dating My Teenage Daughter. The son of country-and-western singer and film star Tex Ritter, he worked frequently on TV (his other series included Hooperman and Hearts Afire) and had roles in the 1996 film Sling Blade and on Broadway...
...Manish Jha is no such equivocator. In A Nation Without Women (which won the critics' award at the recent Venice Film Festival), he exposes the social horror of India's antifemale birth policy from the first scene. A woman goes into labor; her husband paces anxiously; a baby's cry is heard. "It's a girl," the man is told; he takes the infant, drowns it in a well and apostrophizes, "Next year...