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...Meanwhile, the Tigers were taking their time, looking for cutters, and creating open shots for their top scorers. Princeton’s sharpshooting Berry played target practice from various points behind the arc, hitting four of five three-pointers in the first half. Each of her rainbow set shots appeared to pause momentarily at its peak; she backpedaled triumphantly just as each ball plunged perfectly through the goal, touching nothing but the bottom...
...Between 1993 and 1998, she kept a journal chronicling those uncertainties. "I've always been very, very aware of wanting to be understood as being the person that I really am," she says. So, partly in order to figure that out, she started to write, detailing the years-long arc of her relationship with a man 12 years her senior that began when she was still a teenager, her first trip to the Oscars, their breakup, her grief over his death in 1997, the making and release of Titanic, a list of every movie she turned down in its wake...
...though the burden of premarital abstinence has largely rested on the bride. Prepubescent marriages and gruesome practices like genital mutilation and the imposition of chastity belts have long been used in the name of guarding a girl's "purity." Tales of famous (and famously celibate) females like Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I and Florence Nightingale, to name a few, have helped uphold this chaste ideal, while medical literature from as late as the 19th century advised men to preserve their semen to boost vitality--a notion that dates back to Hippocrates and continues to this day among superstitious athletes...
...Princeton’s offense has been a two-man show that posed problems for Harvard and the other Ivies this season. Sophomore guard Dan Mavraides and freshman guard Douglas Davis have been dominating outside the arc, with Mavraides leading the league by shooting .548 from three-point territory in Ivy games...
...played lock-down defense on the perimeter to retain control. The Big Red shot just 4-of-15 from distance after halftime—before she hit her first three with 6:11 to play in the game, Cornell guard Allie Fedorowicz had been 0-7 from beyond the arc. Harvard converted just one of two three-pointers in the second half, but it was a big one—after the Big Red seemed ready for a final push, Berry drilled a three to push the lead back up to 11 with under five minutes to play. Cornell never...