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TONY RONZONE LIKES TO BOAST that he knows a word or two in several foreign languages. He might be better off if he didn't try to use them all at once. A few weeks ago, Ronzone, director of international scouting for the NBA champion Detroit Pistons, appeared at a basketball clinic in Mexico, where he attempted to teach a young Spanish-speaking prospect how best to position himself around the rim. "Demand the qiu!" Ronzone shouted. "Get your cerveza under the basket!" Qiu (pronounced chee-yo) is Chinese for ball. Cerveza means beer in Spanish. Ronzone may have confused...
...Harvard men’s soccer team has a long road ahead of it before the Ivy champion is crowned, but if it can win the game against Cornell tomorrow it will be thrown right back into contention...
...surprise of the film, though, is the unexpected range of singer-turned-actor Tim McGraw, who plays Charlie Billingsley, Don’s father. Well cast as the former high school star and state champion he wishes his son were, McGraw perfectly embodies the strain that the town places on its youth, never relenting in applying that pressure. Though some of the scenes in which he embarrasses his son with his overbearing demeanor—Charlie at one point appears out of thin air as his son fondles his girlfriend on the couch, before taping his hands to a football...
Senior Caryn Davies was a member of the 2003 NCAA Champion Radcliffe crew. Last year, she left Harvard to train for the Olympics. She rowed in the US women’s eight that won the 2002 World Championship, and she was selected as a member of the women’s eight to compete in the Athens Olympics this summer...
...team also lacks senior Vince Porter, the ICSA/Vanguard singlehanded champion and All-American co-ed skipper, who is spending the semester in Rome...