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...Delaney-Smith says. “She was playing with one arm, she was playing in pain and she was playing in fear because her shoulder kept coming out all the time.”Luckily for Harvard, Holsey’s injury woes—and the balky brace that epitomized two years in basketball purgatory—have become yesterday’s news. The team’s 2004-05 run to an Ivy League title was a year of new confidence for the junior guard, who won new legions of adoring fans, not the least...
...When Loncke brandished the term “heteronormative,” she was attacking the assumption that the typical Harvard woman would someday want to come together in marriage with—brace yourselves?...
WANTED: POLO SHIRTS, SIZE XXL Big-and-tall stores should brace themselves for some wealthy new customers with an urgent need for sport coats. When the NBA's new dress code goes into effect Nov. 1, Philadelphia 76ers guard ALLEN IVERSON is one player who will have to retire his throwback jerseys, do-rags and chunky gold chains to comply with the new "business casual" rule for games and league events. To tackle a perception problem, NBA commissioner David Stern has banned all headgear, shorts, T shirts and necklaces visible outside clothing. "Everybody has their own style," says Iverson. "That...
...imitated him that it's hard to realize how weird Bob Dylan sounded on first hearing--when the gods of show biz must have wondered, Who let him in? A slight figure with voluptuous lips and a hawk's hooded eyes, he hid behind his guitar and his neck-brace harmonica and emitted those torturous barnyard vowel sounds. Yet almost immediately, people got it. The imagery was so rich and cascading, the urgency of his outrage so compelling and contagious that listeners pretty quickly adjusted their long-held definition of what a folk song--or a pop song...
...embryos to fetuses stillborn at nine months. The museum is also testament to the massive medical advances of the past 300 years. The Silver and Steel Gallery juxtaposes clunky antique surgical tools with the sleek instruments used in operating theaters today. Be grateful that the 18th century skull-trepanning brace-and-bit and the brutal mid-19th century "tumor snare" are safely relegated to a blood-spattered past. tel: (44-20) 7869 6560; www.rcseng.ac.uk/services/museums