Word: career
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...NOTEBOOK:Brown's final Harvard contest put her in a tie for the all-time career record of most games played...With the 10 points scored Saturday night, Brown finished with 676 career points, which is ninth on the all-time scoring list...Hayes led the team in scoring with 18 points, while Baldauf chipped in 12...Dartmouth finished the season with an Ivy record of 12-2 and a 16-9 overall mark...Harvard's final record of 13-13 marks the first time the Crimson has reached .500 since the beginning of the Ivy season...
...look back now," says a political aide, "and I don't think he felt up to it." Reagan had been through a cancer operation the year before, and his prostate trouble was on his mind. Then came Iran. Never before in his long, successful political career had he faced such trouble. He shrank from it. He dithered. His memory on little things and some big things blanked out, a sign of aging...
Janis was reared in Orange County, a mecca of conservatism. "I lived in suburbia, in middle-class homes. I got my driver's license at 16. I was on the drill team in high school. I was going to grow up and have a successful career. Now it all makes me want to throw up." Her notions changed when she went to France in her junior year (1974) to study at the Universite de Bordeaux. There she met a young student in the school of architecture; passion followed, as did marriage...
...years served as a papal advance man. In 1970 Marcinkus used his 6-ft. 4-in. frame to thwart a knife attack on Pope Paul VI in Manila. The Archbishop was once thought to be on the Vatican fast track, but after the Ambrosiano affair his rapid career advancement came to a stop. He was not named a Cardinal as anticipated and did not rise to become President of Vatican City, another post that he was expected to receive. He has not been the advance man on papal trips since...
...pictures, among which is The Marriage of Maria Braun (Somerville Theater). Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, this 1978 film tells the tale of post-World-War-II Germany through the life of the title character. A ruthlessly ambitious but visually stunning woman, Maria Braun (Hanna Schygulla) starts off her career as a whore, servicing American soldiers, blackmarketeers and anyone else who has cash. Braun quickly moves up in the world, settling in with a business firm, only to blow her self to bits accidently...