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...acknowledged, this is a portrait of a character not far from his own: a traveling man with scores of women in his past, riding high on the confidence that people will buy anything he pitches - even a savory comedy-drama with a tart aftertaste. He, and Reitman, could close the sale on Oscar night...
...closer, as the Broncos demonstrated why they are ranked among the nation’s top 20 teams.“Against Santa Clara we were playing a very good team,” Atkinson said. “The team fought hard, but it wasn’t close.”Voith found the back of the net twice and Atkinson, Lee, Eliot, and sophomore Kevin DiSilvestro comprised the rest of the offense. Senior Nikhil Balaraman got his second start of the weekend for Harvard, but could do little to stop the Bronco onslaught.NO. 11 PRINCETON 16, HARVARD...
...Lily Durwood said. “She can find a kill even when it looks like there’s none to be found.”SOUTH CAROLINA 3, HARVARD 1Lining up against the Gamecocks (8-1), the Crimson won its first set of the weekend and came close to grabbing two others with sets of 25-21, 21-25, 25-22, 25-12. Although Harvard held substantial leads at various points throughout the match, the Gamecocks ultimately emerged the better team with a dominant performance in the fourth set.The challenge of playing the SEC team was clear...
...that they took in the first half.“I don’t know, I’ve never seen that before,” Harvard goalie Mann said. “I went to get the ball and obviously they can’t stand that close, it’s obstruction. It was difficult.”With Mann saving four goals throughout the game, Harvard’s defense proved an obstacle for Long Beach State, and hopes to continue to provide a challenge to local rivals Boston College and Boston University next weekend...
...With Baghdad and Tehran getting increasingly close, some observers think the raid was an attempt to appease Iran's ayatullahs, who consider MEK members terrorists. "This situation was predictable the day Saddam's regime fell," says Karim Pakzad, a Middle East expert at Paris' Institute of Strategic and International Relations (IRIS). "It's understandable that the Iraqis want to extend their sovereignty to a camp of former militants, whose presence they can no longer stand. But it's also become a humanitarian question: what to do with these people...