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...game was a back-and-forth affair. The Terriers took the lead twice in the first period and each time the Crimson tied the score. In the second, Harvard went ahead, only to find the game knotted again later in the period. Back and forth it continued—until the Crimson allowed three goals in three and a half minutes to start the third...
...game was a defensive affair, fitting considering that the headliners were arguably the two best prep defenders in the area. But in the end, St. Seb’s handed Cushing its only loss of the season, 1-0, on the way to its first ever Prep School championship...
...second event rolled around last March, Mayor Jane Reilly says, it seemed as much a local tradition as the Christmas-tree lighting and the Fourth of July parade. And there are signs that some families consider the effort to slow down something more than just a once-a-year affair. "Ready, Set, Relax! was a sanity check for us," says David BaRoss, a manager at a big telecommunications company who habitually worked late and missed dinner with his wife Beth and daughters Kelsey, 11, and Rochelle, 14. David and Beth, a former commuter mom who now works closer to home...
...local louche woman named Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman)--The Human Stain warms to its characters' decency and neediness. It blooms in poignancy with flashback scenes of Coleman's '40s family--the wise mother (beautiful Anna Deavere Smith) and upright father (Harry Lennix) he disowns--and finds anchor in his affair with Faunia. "Granted, she is not my great love," Coleman says. "But she sure as hell is my last love. And that deserves some respect." So does Hopkins, whose acting here is a slow, painful flowering, and Kidman, who late in the film has a speech delivered with such musical...
...Republican variety became full-blown in the parade of Speakers of the House we saw in 1999, near the peak of impeachment. Rep. Bob Livingston, shortly after being elected to succeed the disgraced (and adulterous) Newt Gingrich, had to step down following the revelations of his own extramarital affair. At about the same time, the indiscretions of no fewer than three Republican House impeachment managers, Bob Barr, Dan Burton, and Henry Hyde, came to light in a document compiled by the sleazy, but hardly hypocritical, Larry Flynt...