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...Mineola Twins” are especially guilty of speechifying first and dealing with plot and character development second, and as a result the characters’ emotional shifts are at times confusingly erratic.Steinemann has the actors portray these transformations from casual chatting to nervous breakdown with mixed effects: Hecht does quite well with these extremes, especially as Myrna; as Jim, Havard is much stronger in quieter, more serious or desperate moments than at these points of excitement or panic...
...record-setting yards total came thanks to nifty runs by his receivers. In fact, the game’s two longest plays both featured large chunks of yards after the catch.On a 59-yard pass to tight end Jason Miller in the second quarter, a coverage breakdown by Princeton resulted in an easy completion of about 20 yards before the junior rumbled for nearly 40 more, finally getting dragged down at the Tigers’ 16-yard line.“Usually, you base your game on how well you block, and when you catch passes, that?...
...junior tight end Jason Miller for a 19-yard completion. Sophomore Patrick Long put Harvard up, 10-0, with a a 23-yard field goal. Princeton’s offense woke up in the second quarter, running the option effectively and leveling the score at 10. But a defensive breakdown allowed a 59-yard pass play from Pizzotti to Miller that set up a 28-yard field goal by Long, giving the Crimson a 13-10 advantage going into halftime. Injuries plagued the Tigers’ comeback bid, as Foran was sidelined with a concussion midway through the second quarter...
...more concentrated than the amount found in a cup of brewed tea. After about a year, 25% of the patients saw stabilization in their disease for 90 days, and 19% for 180 days. The experimenters say BZL101 works by preventing cancer cells from undergoing glycolysis, a process of glycogen breakdown that accounts for as much as 85% of cancer cells' energy supply...
Still, though you won’t hear John Madden say that you have to pass to win the game, offensive balance is the accepted norm. In the Ivy League this season, only two teams are straying outside of a 60-40 percent breakdown of run and pass. Cornell is at 61 percent pass; the other team is Yale, which has vaulted up to No. 16 in the I-AA poll with a blistering 4-0 start. The Bulldogs are at 76 percent...