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Former hockey superstar Ray Bourque was on hand to congratulate the winning team and present them with a shiny silver trophy to commemorate the hard-earned victory. Eating over two pounds of food—not all of which stayed down—was a difficult feat, even for the massive men of the Harvard team, Dowell said...
...best players don’t only score consistently, but also step up during the biggest of games. Prior to Saturday’s victory, No.1 Minnesota was the only team to score five goals against Dartmouth. Corriero single-handedly matched that feat...
...first 10 races of the season, and he did so in all four disciplines, from the highly technical slalom event to the nail-biting, death-defying downhill. The last time anyone did that was Marc Girardelli, skiing for Luxembourg in 1988. But Girardelli needed 71 days to accomplish the feat. Miller, characteristically, took just 16. "I find my groove pretty quickly," Miller concedes with a shrug. He had just finished a day of downhill training and a late-night volleyball game to top it off. "Four or five days and I'm there," he says. "It's easy...
Sandler, though quite good, is mildly decent compared to the stellar cast around him. Tea Leoni pulls off an incredible feat: the Deborah Clasky character is manic, egotistical, with absolutely no redeemable qualities yet somehow she brings a warmth and humanity to the character—you don’t hate her at the end of the movie. Vega, star of Spanish hits Sex Y Lucia and Talk to Her, stubbornly refuses to make Flor a type character, replacing the ignorant, meek characteristics of the non-English speaking servant with nobility and confidence...
With Spanglish, Brooks has proven once again that he’s one of the best filmmakers of our time: the balance of comedy and drama here is no small feat. But the real achievement is the writing. With prosaic gems ranging from sweet (“they should name a gender after you”) to damned clever (“lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense”), Brooks is almost guaranteed a best original screenwriting nod come Oscar time. Oddly, he’s able to do this in with one of those...