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...downs are not created equal. Urgency builds through each set of downs, reaching a crescendo on third down, with its tantalizing prospect of forcing a punt. In the red zone, the stakes and outcomes change—the challenge for the defense becomes holding the opposition to a field goal, while the offense strives for seven points...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lehigh Dominates Third Down, Contest | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

...political uncertainty. Did his announcement herald a long-awaited democratic solution for a country that is simultaneously being choked by Marcos' brand of authoritarianism and threatened by a growing Communist insurgency? Or was it just a ploy to fend off the anti-Marcos criticism that has reached a new crescendo in the streets of Manila and the corridors of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: I'm Ready, I'm Ready | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...juxtaposition of graphic violence with such peculiar jokes. It is unsettling to witness the readiness with which one dewy-eyed woman after another hands over food, coins or, in the most dramatic instance, an only son at the prompting of a few words from Bose and a crescendo of woodwinds (the bandshell must be behind the camp...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Indian Epic Focuses on Gandhi's Rival | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...juxtaposition of graphic violence with such peculiar jokes. It is unsettling to witness the readiness with which one dewy-eyed woman after another hands over food, coins or, in the most dramatic instance, an only son at the prompting of a few words from Bose and a crescendo of woodwinds (the bandshell must be behind the camp...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Indian Epic Focuses on Gandhi's Political Rival | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like a diamond stowed in his breast pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Telecommunicator: JOHNNY CARSON (1925-2005) | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

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