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This son of a Paduan carpenter, who rose to become the cynosure of every humanist eye in northern Italy, once sent a gang of thugs to bash up a printer who fell foul of him, and then had the poor man denounced for sodomy -- a crime that, in 15th century Venice, carried the death penalty. Mantegna could also be sardonic and disrespectful to tardy patrons, up to and including the Pope himself. When Innocent VIII hired him to decorate the chapel of the Villa Belvedere in the Vatican, he was puzzled to see, tacked onto allegorical roundels of the Seven...
...fact, coaches are quick to cry foul when an opponent abandons the gentler Olympic style. After the Swedes were upset in a pre-Olympic warm-up against the Americans, the Swedish coaches branded the Americans hooligans. But Swedish center Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, a veteran of rough and tumble during nine seasons with the Washington Capitals, shrugged it off. "There was a lot of holding and pulling us down, that's all." Gratuitous violence of the kind that has turned N.H.L. hockey into a spectacle sport is the last thing American coach Dave Peterson wants to see, he claims...
...course, that lone weakness was their downfall: junior guard Erin Maher hit two foul shots with 3.8 seconds left, to give the Crimson a 68-65 victory...
Forward Tammy Butler then hit a shot from a little left of the foul line. Center Debbie Flandermeyer canned her patented turn-around. On and on it went...
...Tammy has been extrordinary," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "She really stepped in to help with Debbie in foul trouble...