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...three weeks to fine-tune, seat race, and harness speed—a luxury that is impossible in the back-to-back frenzy of dual season. A series of lineup changes and substitutions due to injury have left Harvard with different lineups, a move both boats credit to increased speed and improved rhythm in the weeks leading up to Sprints. “As much as it’s easy to look at rankings and times between races, the sheer number of changes and what can happen from beginning to end shows you that you can?...
Although public disaffection with Blair has festered for years, the speed and scale of his decline have stunned even longtime detractors. Why have things soured so fast? One reason is the revival of the opposition Tories under their dynamic young leader, David Cameron. Another is a spate of recent government scandals, from undignified sexual shenanigans to more serious issues of misjudgment, recalling the venality and incompetence that dogged the dying days of the ancien Tory régime in the mid-1990s. But, like his comrade George W. Bush, Blair faces his biggest problem because of Iraq. Voters think he stretched...
Owen Wilson voices Lightning McQueen (as in speed and Steve), the hottest rookie on the circuit, and doesn't he know it! He's got drive, heaven knows, but no perspective. Who needs friends, or a pit crew? He's a one-man show! Ka-chow! Lightning's main rivals in the movie's opening race are "the King" (racing legend Richard Petty), who's going for one last win before he retires, and a dirty-driving mug named Chick (Michael Keaton), who's so rotten that one of his sponsor decals reads htB, for Hostile Takeover Bank...
...hydra-head of animation, Lasseter may have an uphill journey: not just keeping Pixar on track (Brad Bird's Ratatouille, about a gourmet rodent in Paris, is next, probably followed by Toy Story 3), but also in steering the Mousemobile back to speed. In 1994, when The Lion King capped a series of animation hits, Disney's bright future seemed as sure a bet as Pixar's does now. Then Toy Story came out, and computer animation took over. Before buying Pixar, a desperate Disney had scuttled its traditional animation unit. Lasseter may restore that. "Of all studios that should...
...brief stay in Radiator Springs brings Lightning to his senses: to the recognition that the old have tricks to teach the young, that winning means more than coming in first and that speed can't top taking your time to savor the scenery--that, as Lasseter says, "the journey in life is the reward...