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...said. “Especially coming from last year, [when] we started with a lot of losses, we came out really strong and kept making improvements throughout the whole season. We had a really good chance in the league until the very end, but that doesn’t dampen what we had before.”Looking ahead, Caples and the co-captains both foresee continued success with the returning squad.“I have no regrets,” Berglund reflected. “It’s been a great four years...
With weather forecasters calling for moist ocean breezes on Thursday to further dampen the fires, and hundreds of thousands of Californians returning to their homes, Schwarzenegger's crisis appears to be ending the way many of his movies wrapped up: with a lot of smoke and wreckage, but with the hero stronger than ever. This is one time, however, that Arnold would prefer not to star in a sequel...
Professors must have felt like weary postmen as they marched towards Memorial Church Friday. But intermittent rain couldn’t dampen spirits Friday as the University officially installed Drew G. Faust as its 28th president. Official Harvard Alumni Association ponchos were donned, umbrellas sprouted like mushrooms in Tercentenary Theatre, and the ceremony was marred only by a wet microphone that shorted out during remarks by University Marshall Jackie A. O’Neill...
...Queen of Scots schemes to replace her cousin Elizabeth on the English throne - if, of course, she can avoid the death sentence everyone is urging the Virgin Queen to impose on her. In Whitehall, Walter Raleigh is spreading his coat over the mythical puddle so his sovereign will not dampen her dainty feet as she strolls toward her distinguished destiny. Meantime, spies and assassins scuttle through the corridors of power, the torture chambers are booked solid for the foreseeable future and Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett, playing a woman 17 years her senior) allows herself to be smitten by Raleigh (the internationally...
...FOUGHT JAMES BROWN IN the recording studio--and once even in court--but that did little to dampen the friendship and creative partnership Bobby Byrd shared with the Godfather of Soul over a half-century. In the early '50s, the singer helped secure the release of a young Brown from a Georgia youth detention center, invited him to join his gospel band and began to shape the future funk king's sound. As collaborators in the Famous Flames, the band that launched Brown, the pair co-wrote tunes, including Brown's signature Get Up (I Feel Like Being...