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...view, prevalent in Australia until the '90s, that female swimmers were past it by their late teens has sunk like a brick. "I don't care how good a kid is or what traumas she's faced," says Don Talbot, Australia's former head coach and now a consultant to Australian Swimming, "keep her in the water until she's 21 and she'll excel." By that age, Talbot argues, most women have overcome issues of body image and social awkwardness, and are ready to hit a peak that can last five years or more. But Gould was long gone...
Even by her bass baritone--level standards of public decency, COURTNEY LOVE has sunk to a new low. On Late Show with David Letterman last week, the singer-actress babbled about drug charges she faces and repeatedly bared her bosoms. At a New York City club that same night, the rock widow allegedly tossed a microphone stand into the crowd, injuring a man and getting charged with assault. Love's publicist says, "She will be vindicated." The only person to profit from the display was Whitney Houston, whose entry into rehab earlier in the week was soon forgotten...
It’s a mark of the strength of the team behind Roberto Zucco that they aren’t sunk by its script, which is one of those laughably pretentious philosophical treatises that stink up the Ex with fair regularity. Briton Martin Crimp’s affected translation (from Bernard-Marie Koltès’ French original) gives Roberto Zucco much of its campiness, but the play’s plot is no treat, either. Its title character (John Dewis) is a multiple murderer who enjoys making uninformative speeches about the place and nature...
Even while holding Harvard still had no trouble beating the Camels. Junior driver Diane Dewey got the balling rolling as she sunk one past Connecticut’s Margaret Minnick less than two minutes into the game...
...after the Huskies’ Jose Juan Barea—the team’s star point guard who had already sunk five of his six free throw attempts—missed both shots from the charity strip to give the Crimson one last chance to send the game into overtime, it seemed that Harvard’s luck had finally come around...