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...people moved around, sophomore Brenda Taylor was the most successful. She came in third in the 55-meter dash with a time of 7.38 seconds, captured first in the 55-meter hurdles and finished second in the 400, just .02 seconds behind Princeton's Bynia Reed. She capped off the day by helping to break the women's school mile-relay record with a time...
...sidelined by a tendon-tearing sack. His band of yuk-ups consists of a jolly redneck Billy Bob, a Casanova with a strategically placed cowboy hat, and a black running back who's only purpose, it seems, is to fulfill a hopelessly contrived racism subplot. Throw in a dash of T & A, a pinch of pecs, the trampy, whipped cream bikini-wearing blond cheerleader and bring to a simmer in a cauldron of frothy beer...
...game out of reach for the Crimson. Harvard did pull within six at 65-59 on junior guard Courtney Egelhoff's two free throws with 2:23 left to play. But Brown freshman point guard Emily Troupe connected on a three-pointer on the ensuing possession to dash the Crimson's comeback hopes...
Male writers seem more comfortable in announcing their 50th birthday, in such books as Dave Barry Turns 50 (Crown); The Big Five-Oh! Facing, Fearing, and Fighting Fifty by Bill Geist (Quill) and The 50 Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles and Fears of Being Half a Century Old, by Bob Greene (Doubleday). The books are all similar: a series of rat-a-tat gags about failing eyesight, flagging libido and fading memories. But contemporaries will relate...
Another gadget my car won't get is Clarion's Auto PC ($1,200). It's a dash-mounted computer that's designed to accept simple voice commands, and will do everything from tune the radio or CD player to retrieve and read aloud e-mail or dial your cell phone from a contacts list. Sounds cool, but wait for the kinks to shake out; the person who demonstrated it for me couldn't get it to work properly...