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...hometown’s Veterans’ Day parade is a poignant affair, like a Norman Rockwell painting without quite enough people to fill the frame. It is sparsely attended—my coastal town’s population shrinks drastically in the off-season—and as the high school band director eschews John Philip Sousa unfestive music in minor keys ricochets between the shuttered storefronts. There seem to be fewer veterans every year. Their absence is poorly disguised by the addition of more boy scouts. Bystanders shift from foot to foot, filling the gaps between cub scout...
Sophomore Kat Sweet, the third player on the Botterill-Julie Chu line, led all scorers with two goals and two assists. Sweet’s play in the second period is what turned the game from a close 2-1 affair to a blowout...
...Price-Bullington is the longest running independent collegiate tournament in the country, and is an invitation-only affair. Fifteen of the top collegiate players in the country are invited to compete, and a sixteenth player earns a spot by winning a qualifying event locally in Virginia. Currently, Harvard’s top three players are Broadbent, junior James Bullock and Patterson, respectively, but Bullock was unable to attend due to an academic commitment...
...lived her life in ghastly pain, the result of a crippling accident. But pain, though knowable, is also indescribable. Alas, Frida is one of those chipper biopics in which the heroine (Salma Hayek) cheerfully endures her suffering while incidentally creating her art and carrying on her endlessly tormented love affair with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The result is a trivializing movie, especially disappointing because it was directed by Broadway's lionized Julie Taymor (The Lion King). Her first theatrical film, Titus, was distinguished by a bold and visionary sweep. In Frida that inventiveness has diminished to a kind...
...sports, the best defense is a good offense, especially backed by capable lawyers. In court papers filed last week, former Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan, who now plays for the Washington Wizards, accused Karla Knafel of attempting to extort $5 million from him to keep their onetime affair a secret. Jordan acknowledged that he had a liaison with Knafel more than 10 years ago, though it was not specified when the relationship started or whether he was married at the time. He also admits having paid her $250,000 in hush money, but says that when she came back...