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...only RPI goal--a wrist shot from the top of the goal crease by junior forward Keith Dupee at 1:23 of the third--came on a furious sequence where Jonas had already made a few great saves, including one on Dupee from point blank range...
...want to scream if she says, "I love the little boy in him," one more time. Grab a few of her dippy observations at random--"I cried myself to sleep," "I saw him as a man, not as the President," "He promised me he would [fill in the blank]"--add bathos, and you have a typical paragraph. Repeat three times, and you have a page. Spritz with psychobabble and enough self-improvement rhetoric to fuel a Weight Watchers convention, and you have a "Book Event," a postmodern creation that has feelings but no thoughts. While examining her every emotion, Monica...
...west of Chicago hit by what police describe as a Colombian burglary ring, Pisa has waged a one-woman crusade to focus attention on what she and others say is a serious public-safety issue that the airlines have ignored. At all 28 agencies the take was the same: blank airline tickets--6,000 of them, worth $6 million on the black market...
...business," says Pisa, who got a letter from American Airlines demanding $16,000 for stolen tickets written on her ticket stock. The airline later relented because Pisa had followed recommended security guidelines. But Georgette Bouland-Anthe, a travel agent in Libertyville, Ill., who lost 6,000 blank tickets to the ring and owes the airlines $300,000, was forced to close her seven-year-old Travel Incentives Inc. "The airlines want payment," says Bouland-Anthe. "I am trying to get my nerves back in order after being in this business 20 years and having to walk away from it with...
...look at great portraits today without a certain nostalgia. The painted portrait is a form that, like blank-verse drama in the theater or the caryatid in architecture, would seem to be on its last legs. Indeed, with few exceptions, it has no legs and seems unlikely to grow new ones. Photography took them away. But older portraits have hardly lost their magic and their grip on the imagination. This is why "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch," which is on view (through April 25) at the National Gallery in London, and will be seen later this year...