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...cameras weren't rolling when, during a 1992 trip to Japan, he vomited and then passed out in the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister at a state dinner. Ditto for George W. Bush - when he tried to leave a 2005 press conference in Beijing, cameras caught his humiliating attempt to open a locked door next to his podium. The resulting footage was an instant YouTube hit. Bill Clinton was accused of taking trips abroad to distract from his Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky troubles, but still managed to work in some 50 trips overseas while in office. (See George...
...Suter settled into a groove, scattering three hits over the final five innings—as well as engineering a timely pickoff—without allowing a runner past first base.The rookie pitcher also got some help on the defensive side, with Albright gunning down Grandieri on a steal attempt in the third and Douglas and Meehan combining to turn the game’s only double play in the bottom of the fifth.—Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...Taylor Meehan crushed a double to the gap in right-center, plating junior first baseman Dan Zailskas. Senior left fielder Matt Rogers came up next and belted a long fly ball into the wind that cleared the center-field fence to bring Harvard within two runs. But the comeback attempt fell short when Harvard captain Harry Douglas made the final out of the game on a sharp grounder to first base.COLUMBIA 8, HARVARD 3Pitching made all the difference in the Crimson’s Ivy League opener.Harvard’s hurlers fell behind on counts throughout the game, opening...
...picture—the fact that we’re down 2-0. We really wanted to take one point at a time.”Harvard jumped out to another quick start in the third set, this time with a 7-3 lead. With another comeback attempt by NYU, the Crimson turned once again to Weissbourd. In a crucial stretch, Harvard’s go-to player provided two kills and two key blocks to pull the Crimson ahead 26-22. “We put Brady on their best hitters, and that helped...
...their visions more or less on their own, despite all the support they get from their staff; DreamWorks movies, made near Hollywood, are team efforts. In Pixar features there's a purity of narrative line, an emotional clarity, that the DreamWorks films don't achieve or, for that matter, attempt. Katzenberg's boys, and the characters they birth, are Catskills entertainers, tossing gags into the audience like confetti, sweating to please you every single moment. A Pixar film may have one writer besides the director; it's total auteur handicrafting. Monsters vs Aliens credits two directors and half a dozen...