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...Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “You get a false sense from their record, but they are a very physical team.” Co-captain Emily Tay led the offensive attack with a 22-point performance. Sophomore Christine Matera wasn’t far behind, celebrating her 20th birthday with a career-high 17 points. Matera put the icing on the cake with a 5-for-5 effort from three-point land. Freshman Brogan Berry posted 19 points, while senior co-captain Niki Finelli led the Crimson with 7 rebounds. “I thought we played really...
...Peterson, the conversation featured authors John Elder, Sy Montgomery, and Katy Payne, who talked about the connection to nature portrayed in writing. “Nature writing encompasses robust narrative and well-grounded observations from the science of the natural world,” Elder said. He said that 20th century nature writing—as well as the 19th-Century Transcendentalist movement’s emphasis on the connection between people and the environment—had greatly inspired him. “Most people are not interested in nature. We’re more interested in other people...
...crown of "greatness" never sat easily on the snowcapped head of John Updike, one of the great writers of the 20th century, who died from lung cancer on Tuesday at the age of 76. He grew up a clever, stuttering child in small-town Pennsylvania and went to college at Harvard, where he served as head of the Lampoon, the campus humor magazine, rather than its storied literary magazine, the Advocate. He dabbled in cartooning, and his first published work in the New Yorker consisted of light verse. (See pictures of John Updike...
...leaked late in the race, accusations flew that Gillibrand actually lived in a New York City apartment, and both sides ran numerous negative TV commercials. Gillibrand was re-elected in 2008 with 62% of the vote - more than $10 million having been raised for that contest. Her district, the 20th, is heavily Republican...
...Outside of the economy, there are a handful of potentially tricky anniversaries for China in the coming year: the 20th anniversary of the crushed Tiananmen movement, the 50th of the failed Tibetan uprising and the 10th of the banning of the Falun Gong spiritual sect...