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Even though Columbia has little chance of winning the Ivies, don't be surprised if the Lions foil the postseason plans of a few other teams in the league...
...past years, Rollins has been accused of fielding a mediocre band to serve as a foil for his spectacular extemporaneous flights. The same cannot be said of his present band. In pianist Stephen Scott and trombonist Clifton Anderson, Rollins has two tremendous talents with which to share feature time. Percussionist Victor See-Yuen, drummer Perry Wilson and bassist Bob Cranshaw (an intermitent member of Rollins' bands for 40 years) keep rock-solid time and provide the springboard for the virtuosic solos of the three leads...
Even though Columbia has little chance of winning the Ivies, don't be surprised if the Lions foil the postseason plans of a few other teams in the league...
Carter took the change as an opportunity to shake up the show a bit. After Mulder was abducted by aliens at the end of last season, he decided to write not a pseudo Mulder but a skeptical foil for Scully. And when the hard-boiled Doggett joins the search for Mulder in the premiere (Fox, Nov. 5, 9 p.m. E.T.), Scully receives him as harshly as many X-philes have. "We let the returning characters speak to our own discomfort with the idea of a new guy," says executive producer Frank Spotnitz...
...local bankers and shop owners say that the coin's size, weight and striking resemblance to a piece of foil-wrapped chocolate have kept it from becoming the Square's currency of choice...