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Formed in 1992 by frontman Raine Maida and guitarist Mike Turner while the pair were studying at the University of Toronto, OLP quickly expanded to include bassist Chris Eacrett (since replaced by Duncan Coutts) and drummer Jeremy Taggart. The post-grunge band's 1995 debut, Naveed, was met with immediate commercial and critical success north of the border, and established the band's status as the pride and joy of the Canadian alt-rock scene. OLP's 1997 effort, Clumsy, avoided the dreaded second album jinx and, in addition to its quadruple-platinum status in Canada, led to the band...
Siilats had not jumped that high since her Harvard debut in December, when she cleared 1.84 meters to make her the second-best jumper in school history...
Siilats's performance was especially clutch since she had not cleared such heights since her Crimson debut on Dec. 2 against Boston College, when she leapt 1.84 meters--the best jump in school history outside of Gyorffy. That height would keep Siilats on top of the national performance lists for nearly two months before Gyorffy's return to collegiate competition following the Sydney Olympics...
Last Wednesday, the morning after President George W. Bush made his prime-time debut, more than a dozen House and Senate Democrats gathered for a postmortem in the L.B.J. Room of the Capitol. Pollster Geoff Garin ran through the results of his focus groups--what viewers had responded to, what they were still worried about. "The bottom line was Bush had a pretty good night," says a participant. "People liked him. They liked his presentation. They thought it was balanced." It was one more sign of how profoundly the world has changed since the last time the Democrats sat listening...
GEORGE W. BUSH Delivers debut address to Congress, then gets out of town to let others fight over details...