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Penélope Cruz has arrived at the top, thanks, in part, to a bottom. The actress wears the plenteous prosthetic posterior under her 1950s Sophia Loren--inspired straight skirts and clingy cardigans in Pedro Almodóvar's new film, Volver. "Mothers have beeg bottoms," the Spanish director of culturally charged films says in accented English as he sprawls on a sofa next to Cruz in his suite at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles. "Your curves here are natural," he says to her, cupping his hands on his chest, "but not here," he says, pointing to his seat...
...breakthrough for the win came on a spectacular play by the Harvard rookies. Chey Im received the ball in the midfield and threaded a perfect pass straight up the gut of the offensive zone to freshman André Akpan. Akpan, who was very nearly offsides, took the ball almost all the way to the end line on the right side of the goal and then put a shot that nudged off of the left post and bounced over the goal line for the 2-1 lead...
...immediately responded. The 7’0 center took over down low, battling for advantageous position and demanding the ball from the guards. He began with a pair of free-throws and added three consecutive lay-ups, the last coming on a three-point play. Overall Cusworth scored nine straight points for Harvard, bringing the Crimson back within one at 47-46 and killing the quicker Maine squad’s chance to run away with things...
...guide, then Muslim Americans - immigrant and African American alike - will not soon break with their new-found liberal allies. In the meantime, many non-Muslim Americans will be troubled by these developments and find in them further evidence of the widespread sentiment that Muslim Americans are not being straight with their fellow citizens, that they are hypocrites. Perhaps they are. But then non-Muslims ought to recognize that "hypocrisy" of the sort on view in Minneapolis last week is akin to the tolerance on which our pluralistic society depends. In fact, just such behavior demonstrates that Muslims are beginning...
Logic dictates that something needs to change for Penn, losers of three straight overtime games, a feat of elongated heartbreak unmatched in the NCAA annals. I agree. This week, they’ll lose in 60 minutes...