Word: breakouts
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...year. When I began writing this novel, all those voices came back and I think the two main female characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns were kind of inspired by my collective sense of what women in Afghanistan went through, particularly since the withdrawal of the Soviets and the breakout of anarchy and extremism and criminality. (See Art from war-torn Afghanistan...
...Louis Caputo has a tremendous head start.Harvard wrestling suffered a devastating blow last spring, when the already-ailing co-captain endured a knee injury that shelved the grappler for an entire semester.Ranked eighth in the nation after an All-American sophomore campaign in 2007, Caputo looked to have a breakout season, but he instead found himself on hiatus from Harvard, preserving his final two years of eligibility by taking the semester off.Still, as the Blue Springs, Mo. native has proven time and again, his heart never strayed far from the Crimson singlet.“I’m excited...
...bunch of games like that. We’re not a dominant team. We’re a team that finds a way to win.”I couldn’t have said it better myself.All season I’ve waited to see the breakout game. With most of the team returning from last year, it seemed only natural that Harvard would return from the summer to be the dominant team we all saw perform last November at the Yale Bowl.But in the end, Murphy is right: this isn’t a dominant team...
...engaging performance—particularly Patel, whose soft, downtrodden work sharply contrasts with the exuberance of his younger counterpart. His understated delivery works wonders—it’s a natural statement on disappointment and longing. Pinto has already been labeled by Entertainment Weekly as a new breakout star, and with good reason. She’s extraordinarily beautiful, but Pinto does more than just stand around and look pretty (although she does spend a good deal of time doing just that). Her character is trapped as a young wife married to a fat old gangster, and Pinto?...
...think he’d admit that he slowed down a little bit towards the end of the season. It was a long season for him and a lot of guys in their freshman year with the grueling schedule.” Still, given Biega’s breakout performance at the start of last season—he was twice named the ECAC Rookie of the Week—Donato and the rest of the Crimson believes that their sophomore forward will surpass last year’s success, helping the Crimson go head-to-head with the ECAC?...