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...plenty of time to ponder that question last week, on the long subway ride home to my love motel in Seoul, exhausted from my first World Cup as a journalist (although it was my eighth as a fan). And after years of wrestling with the baffling question of why some nations are football winners and others simply are not, I have reduced it to a question of psychology, or sociology, or social psychology, or some sort of combination of guts and brain, attitude, style and substance. And luck and, oh yes, some football skills. For some inexplicable reason, the World...
Another incoming freshman, defenseman Peter Hafner, was drafted by Florida in the eighth round with the 232nd overall pick. Hafner is a 6’5 defenseman from the Taft School in Connecticut...
...other returning Harvard players were drafted in the final rounds. Sophomore defenseman Ryan Lannon was taken in the eighth round by the Pittsburgh Penguins, seven picks after Hafner, and sophomore winger Rob Flynn was selected by the New York Rangers with the first pick of the ninth round...
...properties of film - as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dance to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in "Easter Parade," defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in "Royal Wedding," defied age by hoofing serenely through his sixth, seventh and eighth decades. He conquered television with a brace of specials in the late 50s. He turned to straight acting and won an Oscar nomination (his first!) for his performance in "The Towering Inferno." In his 81st year he took a wife less than half his age: thoroughbred jockey Robyn Smith...
...Angeles the school board voted to explore alternatives to--and possibly abandon--California's state test, the Stanford 9; San Francisco is weighing a similar measure. School officials in Cleveland, Ohio, dropped from 16 to 13 the number of tests required from kindergarten through eighth grade. And in Nebraska, a state with an unusual assessment system that mixes state exams with more flexible local tests, the education commissioner, Doug Christensen, says he's convinced he can comply with the No Child Left Behind Act and maintain the state's current testing program. "We're hoping...