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Spectators at Bentley College watching the Harvard women's lacrosse team overcome a Boston College lead yesterday, were treated to this feat...
...defining event of DiMaggio's career occurred in 1941, when he got at least one base hit in 56 consecutive games--a feat of consistency no other player has come close to matching. Evolutionary biologist (and sports buff) Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that "DiMaggio's streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports...
...Murray painfully illustrates, this feat of daring and desperation did not have the effect Annie desired. Immediately after experiencing the shock and joy of her self-described immaculate rebirth within the Falls, Annie climbs out of the water and is greeted only by cold disbelief and disgust. Instead of a symbol of beauty and hope, the crowd gathered to see her feat finds instead "a woman, short and plain and only slightly bruised,/ moving dizzily among them/ like a fly hatched by mistake in the winter sun." To the crowd gathered and to history itself, Annie was an ugly...
...conundrum and a wonder that the republic has allowed the production of highly sophisticated films that are both touching, in the style of Italian postwar neorealism, and at least implicitly critical of aspects of the ruling theocracy. How do Iran's auteurs pull off this double feat? Frequently, by cloaking grownup stories in toddler raiment. For Iran is not only a leader in world film; it is the leader in children's films. This is Iran's cinema spirit: humanism with a kid's face...
Second-tier teams like Dartmouth, Princeton and Providence probably need to win the ECAC Tournament to have a shot at a trip to Minnesota. But that feat will not be easy, because if any of those teams do manage a first-round upset, the lowest seed to advance will probably have to face Harvard in the semifinals...