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...weeks after suffering the season-ending loss of captain center Paul Fisher to mononucleosis, the remaining members of the class of '99--point guard Tim Hill, shooting guard Mike Beam, center Bill Ewing, and guard Chris Dexter--went toe-to-toe on consecutive nights with the Ivy's national powers, pulled off the biggest upset in Harvard basketball memory and emerged having equaled the school record as the winningest four-year class in history, with...
...This week, Ewing did everything that could be asked of a starting center, much less one impressed into duty by Fisher's illness. Ewing was judicious yet active on the offensive end, and his 17 rebounds on the weekend are indication that he did stood his ground against more sizeable opposition...
Rushmore, the idiosyncratic new comedy from Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket), is a film of wonderfully conceived characters. Reflecting their smart dedication to originally, Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson have devised a colorful, eccentric cast in which two figures stand out as inspired creation. That first is Max Fisher (Jason Schwartzman), a gangly combination of braces, horn-rimmed glasses, greasy black hair and loads of smug self-assurance. A pupil at the posh, upper-crust Rushmore Academy, Max is a bright kid but a lousy student, mainly because he serves as the head of nearly two dozen extracurricular activities, ranging...
...absence of the 6'8 Fisher--the Crimson'sleading rebounder--once again proved to be afactor in defending the opposition's big men. TheBig Red outrebounded Harvard 43-23, including 14offensive boards...
...Fisher has some big shoes to step into," Ewingsaid. "You take away our best rebounder and I'mjust trying to come in and do the dirtywork--defense and rebounding. You can't becompetitive if you lose nine rebounds a game,which is what he gave...