Word: drought
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...Lebanon, Ohio native knocked down a school record-tying seven three-pointers on his way to a career-high 25 points in a triple-overtime, 85-82 defeat of Rider last Tuesday. The final trey broke a two-minute scoreless drought in the third overtime, providing an exhausted Harvard squad a much-needed jolt of energy. A minute later, senior point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman drained the game-winning three-pointer...
Automakers are gambling that the sports-car bug will spread. After a long drought, more than a dozen such vehicles, from midpriced roadsters like the Audi TT ($33,000) to luxury rockers such as Porsche's 911 GT2 ($182,000), now preen and pose in showrooms. Since 1995, sports-car sales have risen more than 50%, to about 100,000 this year, and are forecast to grow an additional 60% by 2007. While the overall market for two-seaters is limp right now--it's the kind of purchase that people postpone in an uncertain economy--automakers have their reasons...
...After graduation, classmate Chen Kaige hired him as cinematographer on Yellow Earth, the story of a young revolutionary soldier's sojourn in a drought-ravaged village along the Yellow River. Zhang's bold camera work earned the film international attention and ushered in a new wave of Chinese cinema. Together with Chen (who later went on to direct Farewell My Concubine) and classmates Tian Zhuangzhuang and Wu Tianming, Zhang became a star of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese directors. When he watches Yellow Earth now, Zhang says, he is embarrassed by the naked ambition of his cinematography...
...adds Cambridge is better prepared to weather the drought than most cities...
Harvard won despite 32 turnovers and an 11-minute field goal drought to close the game...