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...contest revealed a Crimson team with recovered confidence, sharpened shooting and a reorganized bench. The victory was as much a product of inspired play by the regular starters as of fine performances by the squad's new faces...
...player Harvard needs most, co-captain Caryn Curry, remained on the bench, nursing a sprained ankle. Curry was injured during the opening minutes of the team's losing effort against Manhattanville on December...
Harvard had a chance for a six-point play to get back into the game after the refs called a bench technical foul on a Brown assistant coach, but Flemming missed three of four foul shots and the team couldn't convert its possession...
Most bad movies take a few minutes to reveal their worst sins. Going in Style announces its mediocrity right away. As the heroes (George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg) are first seen sitting on a park bench in Queens and making introductory small talk, Going in Style lapses into immediate and terminal catatonia. The actors are listless. The camera does not move. The lines are separated by silences that would give Harold Pinter pause. One strong whiff of Going in Style, and the audience is transported directly to slumberland. For the next 90 minutes, there is little reason to stir...
...vote of 139 to 133, the Tories went down to defeat on a no-confidence motion supported by the combined opposition of Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberals (114 seats) and the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches had subsided, Clark rose from the government bench to make the despondent announcement. "The government has lost a vote on a matter which we have no alternative but to regard as a question of confidence," he said. "I want to advise the House that I will be seeing his excellency, the Governor...