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From her attack position, Downing exploded for six goals in the Yale game; her speed makes her a constant threat. Junior Becky Gaffney has recently tallied consecutive hat tricks, and is an important cog in getting the Crimson's transition offense moving...
Hecht was not just a cog in America's great art industry. He was a one-man cottage industry, occasionally directing his own scripts but more often writing and rewriting for hire. The filmography in William MacAdams' brisk biography of Hecht lists 143 movie projects, on 77 of which he got no screen credit. The list includes many of Hollywood's sassiest entertainments (Scarface, Twentieth Century, His Girl Friday), but neither MacAdams nor any other scholar can isolate Hecht's contribution to each of them. Only this can be said with assurance: Ben Hecht did not work on Citizen Kane...
...acquainted with this student's academic progress than any other authority, save perhaps his mother. I have followed his academic progress for over twenty years now, from his tens tables to last semester's electives. He has done well, but recently has developed a complex: he fancies himself a cog in a great machine, an 8-digit number in a vast academic apparatus...
Flandermeyer, the newcomer from Orinda, Cal., will be a key cog in the Crimson machinery...
...traveled from the garbage mounds of Cairo to the heart of the AIDS plague in Uganda, profiled the likes of Corazon Aquino and James Michener, and given then candidate George Bush perhaps his toughest TV grilling on the Iran-contra scandal. If she never seemed an indispensable cog in the powerful engine that is 60 Minutes, she was no Tinkertoy either...