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...shoulders of Hero ride the hopes of all Asian cinema. Did Crouching Tiger's popularity portend a huge global market for Asian movies, or was it a fluke? That uncertainty - and Hero's $30 million budget - has piled pressure on everyone on the set. It's palpable, but rarely mentioned, like the wire propelling an actor through an action sequence that gets computer-erased in the final print...
...Crimson then came back the next night and promptly beat down on a tough Bears (6-7, 1-1) squad in resounding fashion, making the earlier loss to Yale seem more like a fluke. Captain Dan Clemente led the Crimson with 26 points in its final game before exam period...
...touches on everything from Dusty Springfield soul to down-home slide guitar blues. Tapping the crucial lode where familiarity and freshness commingle, the whole thing was written and played by Lynne and Bill Bottrell, who demonstrates that his tenure in Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music clubhouse was no fluke...
Perhaps the Dutchmen left Moore unattended in front of the net, giving him not one, but three golden opportunities. But I'd hardly call it a fluke. Perhaps Fridgen should swallow his pride and concede to the better player and the better team...
There is no reason to think that this year's result is anything but a fluke. In the last 10 years, following fairly strict endorsement criteria, Harvard College has nominated 458 candidates for the U.S. Rhodes, 44 of whom have been fortunate enough to win. In this same decade, U.S. state committees have considered over 10,000 candidates from 350 colleges and universities. That one school's students should fare so well, and do so consistently over time, is truly remarkable in this context...