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...everything we could to stop them," said Holy Cross Coach Dan Allen, "We tried but they just executed really well. Harvard was simply a better football team today...
...Every group is allowed to come to the Foundation to explore their own cultural background," said Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Foundation and associate professor of neurology, in an interview...
...just cannot put our defense in that position against a very good offensive team," said Holy Cross Coach Dan Allen. "When you play against a team like Harvard and get your defense out there as many plays as they were in the second half, they're going to wear you down...
...offers a smooth and surprisingly pleasant ride over some pretty rugged intellectual terrain, it is because Pinker writes in the same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. He likes to quote Mae West ("Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed University...
...result, black filmmakers say, Hollywood is often cool to film concepts that don't include pimps, drive-bys, sexual antics or, preferably, all three. Debbie Allen, producer of Amistad, a film about a real-life 19th century slave revolt, spent several years looking for backers before Spielberg signed on to direct it (the film will be out in December). Kasi Lemmons, writer-director of Eve's Bayou--which deals with family secrets, sisterly friendship and voodoo--had a similar experience. "We were turned down by everyone," says Lemmons. "They all said they loved the script, and then they...