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...Cornell's little-used Conor Mullen misses a dunk attempt, and misses the two free throws that go with...
...Halftime in Ithaca. The crowd definitely has reason to cheer--they haven't stopped all night. A Louis Dale runner gives the Big Red it's largest margin of the night at 45-20. As time expires, Pusar gets blocked going for a layup attempt, much to the crowd's delight. At the half, it's Cornell 45, Harvard 20. Barring an incredible turnaround, it's looking like Harvard will finish the 2007-2008 season without a single road...
...that spawned It Happened One Night, Roman Holiday and dozens more. Penelope has been locked away at home, where her fretting, frittery parents (Catherine O'Hara and Richard T. Grant) parade a retinue of potential husbands, all of whom are nauseated at the sight of her. Finally, in an attempt to define herself as something other than That Rich Little Piggy, she leaves home, and is trailed by a young man (James McAvoy, of Atonement fame) who is being paid to reveal her secret to the tabloids...
...Harvard’s ban on chalk—the stuff of hop-scotch and four-square—is an anachronistic attempt to preserve a nonexistent dream of a pristine Yard. Let’s let that attempt cede to a dream of a campus environment teeming with messages. The power of the pen and the power of the chalk stub are not so far apart...
...looks back onto the summers of his adolescence. Clara Schuler, a shy and standoffish teenage girl, gains short-lived popularity in the eponymous “Dangerous Laughter.” She is gifted at hysterical laughter, a talent appreciated by her bored and entertainment-seeking classmates. In an attempt to retain this fading popularity, she laughs herself to death in front of the narrator’s eyes, “inviting [him] to follow her to the farthest and most questionable regions of laughter, where laughter no longer bore any relation to earthly things and, sufficient to itself...