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...influential rapper Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in his GMC Suburban, and Sean “Puffy” Combs stood atop the bloated corpse to propagate his own mediocre hip-hop lite to the world. And in the past year, The Who have completed one of their most successful tours ever after billing it a “tribute” to recently deceased bassist John Entwistle...
...only artist to be exhibited in three different media is Franz von Stuck, whose noteworthy contributions in printmaking and painting methods are supplemented with the exhibit’s only sculpture. Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon’s attack at the brink of its culmination...
...room for error. Assuming the Quakers can handle Princeton and Cornell—who have a combined 2-6 league record—the Crimson must win each of its final three games, including next Saturday’s match-up against Penn, to ensure a tie atop the final league standings...
...looking closely, it's easy to miss the wi-fi antenna atop San Bruno mountain just south of San Francisco. There are a couple of dozen TV and radio broadcast towers, each about 300 ft. tall, surrounded with chain-link fences and electromagnetic radiation warning signs. The wi-fi antenna is a solitary 18-in. plastic stick that radio engineer Tim Pozar stuck up there on his day off. If it disappeared, fewer than a hundred people would notice. "It takes geeks like me, putting up antennas, to make this work," says Pozar...
...arguably the best goalie, defenseman and forward in the league—Cornell should probably be picked lower. But the Big Red’s success is based on an effective offensive and defensive system, not just players, making Cornell the most likely contender to upset the Crimson from atop the ECAC standings...