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...After practicing through his sprained ribs in the week leading up to last Saturday’s game against Princeton, Tyler came down with a case of pancreatitis and was sidelined as a result....Junior defensive end Doug Bennett returns to action this weekend, restoring some of the depth absent from the defensive line in recent weeks...
...have the most fun and am the happiest when I don’t feel the need to present a self other than the one that feels natural. Similarly, the most spectacular failures I’ve had with others have occurred because this kind of disclosure was absent...
...student was so enthusiastic after Summers showed his fifth-grade class how to plot the relationship between two variables—grades and number of days absent, growth of a plant and amount of sunlight and height and weight—that the student pulled Summers by the arm over to the blackboard and showed him a “tree graph...
Stately, imperious Professor Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) mesmerizes and scares his students with caustic oratorical wit. Wondering aloud why two students have been absent from his class, he asks sarcastically, "Are they spooks?" He means ghosts. But the students are African American, the faculty is spineless and Coleman is soon reprimanded for uttering, however guilelessly, a racial slur. This comes as a shock to Silk, who identifies himself as the son of a Jewish saloonkeeper. Funny, you may think, Anthony Hopkins doesn't look Jewish...
Debra Winger, the Terms of Endearment star long absent from the Hollywood scene, is coming back to the big screen today with her first major-studio role in eight years and her schedule has been accordingly full of publicity grabs—like a recent “Today Show” appearance and an event Wednesday at Mount Auburn Hospital...