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...dynamic sophomore slaughtered Yale with her blazing speed and deft touch. For her first score, Yenne took on three Yale defenders, accelerated past them with amazing ease, and blasted the ball perfectly under the crossbar. Yenne would go on to complete the hat trick in the second half, single-handedly propelling the Crimson to a 3-0 lead an demoralizing the Bulldogs...
...minutes later, however, Cornell was able to reap the benefits of its deft passing. A streaking Richard Stimpson received a through ball from freshman Ian Pilarski, and knocked the ball over diving Crimson goalkeeper Dan Mejias to put the Big Red ahead in the 13th minute...
Most often at the receiving end of Stimpson's deft passing is fellow senior Adam Skumawitz. Just four days after leading the Big Red with two goals in their Ivy League opener with Pennsylvania, Skumawitz added two more tallies in a 3-1 win at regional foe Colgate on Sept...
...Since May 1, these deft miniaturists - members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents 135,000 actors - had been on strike against the advertisers and their agencies, for reasons too complex to fit on a placard. And they were finding that not only they but their cause remained unknown. "This isn't about the celebrities," Tim Robbins says. "It's about the 'second doctor from the right,' the people in the background shots - actors struggling to make a living." Just the problem: The strikers weren't famous, not even almost. What...
...long on tension and surprises. That's a fair description of Christina Schwarz's Drowning Ruth (Doubleday; 338 pages; $23.95), which probably explains why, even before its publication, Miramax bought the screen rights for director Wes Craven. Readers should not wait for the film version, though, because this unusually deft and assured first novel conveys a good deal more than thrills and chills...