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...with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling: pregnancy. But after reading additional Balzac works such as Old Go, as Père Goriot was titled in Chinese, and Eugénie Grandet - along with forbidden translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe, Madame Bovary, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo, also stolen from the same Western treasure trove - the worldly education of the beautiful seamstress and real re-education of both young men are completed with an ironic, movie-twist happy ending...
...only nearby schools in high national standing are UConn, Boston College and Notre Dame. UConn, whose RPI is third in the nation, will be too high a seed to play the Crimson. BC, whose RPI is 29th, will be too a low a seed—barring a miraculous run through the Big East tournament. Notre Dame, with an RPI of 23rd, is also an outside possibility...
...Canadian Geraldine Heaney, the grande dame of women's hockey who has played on each of Canada's seven world championship teams, said after tonight's game: "Women's hockey, it's gotten so much better? Every country has improved 100%. It was nice to see Sweden get a bronze medal. They were talking about not even showing up." Perhaps if more funding shows up for the Swedes and other non-North American teams, we'll see a real tournament four years from now in Turin...
...best way to see Lyons is to take it from the top. Hop aboard the funicular, locally known as la ficelle (the string) to Fourvière, once the Gallic town of Lugdunum that was the capital of Roman Gaul. From the terrace of the 19th century Notre Dame basilica, on the site of the old Roman Forum, the view follows the city's progress, from the medieval and Renaissance Vieux Lyons on the banks of the Saône to the narrow 17th and 18th century Presqu'île, or peninsula, between...
...mile, Harvard was led by junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman, who was coming off his standout performance at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational the week before. After posting a time just one second slower than the NCAA provisional qualifying cutoff at the Notre Dame meet, McLean-Foreman turned in a slightly disappointing performance of 4:12.39, and was given some competition by Yale runner Robert Dwyer’s late surge...