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...highest-profile teams the Crimson will play all year. Playing in the Atlantic 10 Conference, three years ago George Washington went 26-2 during the regular season and won a thriller in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against UNC Wilmington before falling against Duke. The team returned to the Tournament again the next year, falling to Vanderbilt in the first round. A year after missing out on postseason action altogether after posting a disappointing 9-17 record, the Colonials are off to a decent 3-2 start so far this season. In its last game however, it fared...
...effectiveness of Lamont’s position will largely depend on her rapport with Smith, said African-American studies Professor J. Lorand Matory, who is leaving for Duke University at the end of the year...
...After graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1965, Shinseki took a brief break from the military life, earning an MA in English Literature from Duke University...
That persona basically took John Wayne, the solitary western hero, and made him nastier, edgier, way easier to anger. Where the Duke drawled and lumbered--he wasn't so much a cattleman as a cattle man--Clint scowled and pounced, a scorpion with stubble. This character was both iconic and malleable: he was as at home on the streets as on the range and as a cop (in the Dirty Harry series), a convict (Escape from Alcatraz), a soldier (Heartbreak Ridge) and, later, a father figure like the Old Testament God--anyone with an intimidating presence and a sandpaper soul...
After the French Revolution, Dom Pérignon's legacy was kept hushed until the 20th century, when it re-emerged as a sensation. In 1936, Doris Duke purchased 100 bottles of the first vintage sold in the U.S.; 68 years later, a case of that vintage sold at auction for nearly $25,000. Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe...