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...hasn’t wanted to whip out a line that sharp? But most of us don’t have that kind of quick wit. It’s mostly confined to the hilarious comedies of the 1930s, particularly “Stage Door,” the timeless story of a boardinghouse full of young actresses trying to make it on Broadway. If modern heroines were witty enough, it’s easy to imagine the story transplanted to modern L.A. But no one could replace the whip-smart original cast, which features Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rodgers...
...idea of the Internet as a megaphone, taking the things we say and making them ten thousand times louder, capable of being heard around the world. A poorly worded letter to the editor or a heat-of-the-moment, too-ambitious argument on a mailing list can shut the door on a nascent political career. That it’s a megaphone in time as well as in space is harder to internalize, though, particularly when we mean time in a broader sense which spans generations.But it’s a phenomenon that’s here to stay...
...have no idea what you've done," the 73-year-old man muttered after he failed to bar the farmhouse door to Renato Cortese, the police officer who had burst through to take him into custody. Cortese brushed off the remark as a typical bad guy's pro forma plea of innocence. He was certain he had his man. The soft-spoken, cigar-smoking cop with a salt-and-pepper beard had been on the hunt for seven years, staring at version after version of sketches of the fugitive. "I'd had dreams about him, of his face...
...says Cortese, 41. "The adrenaline was pumping." After an impromptu hushed meeting with his team in the woods, Cortese and the police piled into a van and rolled slowly down the hill to the property. Revolver drawn, Cortese led the charge, busting open the plate-glass outer door. Provenzano's odyssey was over. He was going to prison for life, having been convicted in absentia on multiple counts of murder...
...Thursday when it travels to Amherst to take on UMass before another weekend of Ivy competition against league-leader Princeton and Penn.HARVARD 2, YALE 0After a scoreless inning of relief in the first game of the afternoon, sophomore Amanda Watkins went the distance in the second, closing the door on the Bulldogs with a shutout at Yale’s Dewitt Family Field.Watkins scattered three hits and struck out two in cruising to her second shutout of the season.“Amanda has grown a lot in her game as a pitcher,” Allard said...