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...fight for entry; he bought his own country club, decked out with an 18-hole golf course, an Olympic-size pool and tennis courts. That helps explain why he identifies with stars like Iverson and Williams, who fit the mold because they break it. They aren't heroes like Tiger Woods, but they attract attention. And they have the stuff of greatness, which means big rewards if they're on your team...
...news this year at Elephant Lake Lodge, according to Bill Smith, who owns the place with his wife Sandy, is that tiger muskies have reappeared in Elephant Lake. Tiger muskies, a cross of muskies and northern pike, cannot reproduce; they were stocked in the lake forty years ago, but not since then. Now Bill Smith believes - though the Ontario fish and game people express doubt - that the Elephant Lake muskies have been miscegenating with the northern pike next door on Baptiste Lake. Smith shows a picture to prove it - a tiger muskie caught recently in Baptiste...
...toward Sheer Rock Island, we saw that in addition to the flock of white and gray gulls that always congregate on the archipelago of rocks dribbling out from the point, there now stood four blackish, scrawny cormorants - freshwater coyotes much given to a diet of sport fish. Win some (tiger muskies), lose some (via cormorants...
...Kosovo or to clamp down on those guerrillas' ethnic cleansing of the province's remaining Serbs and on their export of nationalist insurgencies into Serbia and Macedonia. Which may mean there may be more than a handful of nationalist guerrillas in Macedonia who see NATO as a paper tiger...
...office success of Chinese kung-fu movies has in turn revived kalarippayat. Indian filmmakers, hoping to mimic the high-kicking fights and gravity-defying leaps in Jet Li's Romeo Must Die and Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, are hiring kalarippayat fighters and teachers like Kumar as stuntmen. They're even making sure Bollywood stars have basic training. "Even five years ago, Kerala martial arts had nearly died out," says Kumar, who with his two brothers runs C.V.N. Kalari Sangham in Calicut, among the best known schools in the country. "Now suddenly it is popular again...