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...DINNER WITH: When you eat out with chic chef Nigella Lawson, save room for calf's brains...
Also contributing to Harvard’s offensive woes were the limited playing time of tri-captain attack Matt Primm—who leads the team with 28 points but only played half of the game due to a calf injury—and a lack of consistency on faceoffs. Junior midfielder Alex Vap had led the Crimson to a .632 faceoff percentage entering the game but was only able to win two of 13 against Dartmouth...
That was pre-TV, of course. The home medium soon functioned as a baby-sitter and an incubator for precocious talent: Billy Gray of Father Knows Best, Ronny Howard (later Oscar-winning director Ron) on The Andy Griffith Show and the endless cattle, or calf, call of Bradys, Huxtables and Facts of Lifers. But those youngsters could rarely transform their video adorability to the higher voltage of films. The minors stayed in the minors. Big-screen producers remained oblivious to the 8-to-13 set. Nobody thought to make, say, a black-cast Cody Banks spy saga: Agent Urkel...
Khalid, a 43-year-old Iraqi, won't give his last name for fear of reprisal if Saddam's regime survives. He has a bullet wound in his right calf. He says that five days before troops entered Iraq, fedayeen forces came to the home of his extended family in Diwaniyah, kicked in the door and took all the men between the ages of 20 and 60. Khalid was later taken to Nasiriyah, where he and a ragtag group of some 40 civilians were handed old Kalashnikovs without ammunition and pushed in front of Iraqi soldiers as they faced down...
...dislocated his shoulder, much to the anguish of Yankee fans and fantasy team managers alike. Do you think for a moment that Jeter would take six weeks off were he a marine? New Braves pitcher Mike Hampton is on the DL to start the season after he strained a calf muscle…running on a treadmill. Do you think that injury would stand for a second in the service...