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Last Wednesday marked a strange assemblage of anniversaries: the 145th of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the 98th of the Titanic’s iceberg collision, and the 71st of John Steinbeck’s magnum opus, “Grapes of Wrath.” Among these decaying men and doomed machines stood Simone de Beauvoir, her death one year shy of its quarter-century mark. Although Lincoln gave us “four score and forty years,” the Titanic spawned an eponymous Hollywood blockbuster, and Steinbeck became the bane of freshman reading lists, Beauvoir?...
...masterpiece that is “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” The writers—Laurence C. O’Keefe ’91 and Nell D. Benjamin ’93, who have worked together several times since the Hasty Pudding’s 145th production—return to the Yard to satirize its residents with just the right amount of sting and wit while avoiding an easy resort to caricature. Granted, they’ve got an audience with an insatiable sweet-tooth that coos at the sight of massive amounts of pink...
...course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing body, and 24th in Asia - 13 spots below Bahrain, whose population is less than one-thousandth of India...
Providence, R.I., home of Brown, and Philadelphia, where the University of Pennsylvania is located, ranked 282nd and 343rd, respectively. New York City, home of Columbia, fared slightly better, coming in at 145th...
BUSCH STADIUM, St. Louis: Mark McGwire hit his 62nd home run at 9:18 EST, in his second at bat of his team?s 145th game of the 1998 season. He did it far more quickly than Roger Maris, in far fewer at bats, and indeed this race against history has been a foregone conclusion for weeks. Yet as McGwire watched that 62nd baseball rocket out toward left field and barely ?- just barely, this time -? clear the fence and become part of legend, all the weeks of anticipation melted into joy. And what the highlight films will show us, tonight...