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...Welcome to cold, snowy, and decidedly rural Hamilton, New York, where the Harvard Crimson will be taking on the Colgate Raiders. My esteemed colleague, Karan Lodha, was all set to bring you this live blog, until his computer's wireless capabilities went caput. Fate, it seems, has dictated that I will be with you this evening, and I think it's safe to say we are all better...
...absence, that whole project went caput,” said Kit Tempest, a non-resident tutor in Winthrop and HRTV’s technical adviser...
...when the Hawks cruised into halftime with a 41-21 advantage, they knew this win was in the bag. Finito. Caput. The lights, as veteran Lakers announcer Chick Hearn might say, were...
...appeared an "unwritten presumption that the nearer an artist aspires to the level of high art, the more leached out will become the ethnic content of the work." Hence the peculiarly airless and circular way in which New York City defined itself from about 1965 on as the cultural caput mundi, pulling all talent into its gravitational field of orthodoxy, refusing to accord "seriousness" to provincials and barbarians...
...said when they let her out that she was gonna go straight," he says, "but she'd changed. Like I'd come in and she'd just sit there staring off. She used to be so high, you know? All that was gone, finished, caput. She was zombied out. The one time I saw any life come into her was when I asked her if maybe she should go see her family. And she turned on me like a witch and told me to get the hell out--what was I doing trying to screw up her life. She split...