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...great amount of uncertainty and turmoil, as it came into the spring season with only one player—senior captain Preethi Mukundan—who had previously played a match for the Crimson. Graham’s announcement came only three days before the young team began the crucial Ivy League schedule, a slate of matches that began with Harvard’s first-ever loss to Cornell. Asked if his announcement affected the squad in the loss, Graham said, “It might have, who knows. It shouldn’t have. You never know in this...
...find sex, or even the aura of sexuality, in films by the current generation of pop-referencing auteurs. They swarm all over the violence in '60s-'70s grindhouse movies but are squeamish in showing the eroticism that once was crucial to the genre. The generation of "kids with beards," as Billy Wilder called Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, took their cues from a wide range of movie sources - Saturday-matinee serials, John Cassavetes improv dramas, European angst-athons - and if they got excessive, it was in kitsch and violence, not sex. Rodriguez got some puffs...
...unspoilt beauty-aquamarine waters, coral reefs, lush forests and white sands-that lures foreign adventurers to these temperate parts has already hosted man-made destruction. It experienced the blood and thud of modern warfare when Japanese and Allied Forces fought crucial battles here during World War II. Still, outsiders don't play much of a part in the traditional lifestyle of fishing, gardening and carving that has sustained these Melanesian people of the islets and lagoons. Christian missionaries, as well as some shady proselytizers, have founded peaceful flocks. Time lolls about in this clime, news occasionally wafts in. Now they...
...personal-finance guru, you must first toss out that old mascara, say your full name while standing in front of the mirror and discover true inner harmony. Women have a "totally dysfunctional" relationship with money, Orman writes in her new book, Women & Money, and these ego-boosting exercises are crucial to curing it. "Lasting net worth," she writes, comes from "a healthy and strong sense of self-worth...
...nuclear ambitions. Although it is hard to argue for less economic profits and tougher diplomacy, decisive action now is not just about seducing a specific, key constituency for the EU future, but also about proving the organization’s ideological relevance for the future. That is a crucial step toward realizing the last line of the EU 50th birthday declaration: Britons included, and despite the English Channel, “Europe is our common future...