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...fulfilled—Brian Cusworth has 18 games left to show the league, foreign teams, and himself just what he is capable of achieving on the court.No matter how well he plays, regardless of whether or not he finally becomes the game-changing dynamo that Crimson coach Frank Sullivan envisioned when he recruited the rangy seven-footer out of the John Burroughs School in St. Louis five years ago, Cusworth will not be in uniform when the Crimson men’s basketball team opens up the stretch drive of its Ivy League schedule at home against Columbia...
...very good plus-minus numbers—that is, the difference in how many points the team scores compared to how much the opponent scores when the player is on the court. “Brad had a terrific game off the bench,” Crimson coach Frank Sullivan said. “When he was on the court, he was plus seven, so that was a big boost in the frontcourt. In the backcourt, Jeremy was plus eight, so that was very encouraging. But I think it will still be a work in progress sorting...
DIED. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, co-author, with her brother Frank Gilbreth Jr., of the wry best seller Cheaper by the Dozen, an affectionate account of growing up in a family with 12 children; in Fresno, Calif. Warmly received for the homage it pays to the eccentric Gilbreth parents--who ran a charmingly chaotic household that felt like a "newspaper on election night"--the book spawned a 1950 film and a 2003 remake starring Steve Martin...
...Chums of Chance, a quarrelsome brotherhood of operatives that pops up throughout the novel, circumnavigating the globe in a giant dirigible, on missions ordered by mysterious higher authorities. But soon enough, Pynchon pursues new story lines involving Webb Traverse, an anarchist bomber in Colorado; his three sons Reef, Frank and Kit; and the various women in their lives. When Webb dies at the hands of gunslingers in the pay of Scarsdale Vibe, a ruthless mogul, his sons pledge to avenge his murder, but the project gets complicated. For one thing, their sister Lake ends up married...
...scorers. The Crimson snapped a two-game losing streak to the Black Bears, who were picked as the America East Conference’s second-best team in the preseason poll. “Any win to start the season is always a terrific one,” coach Frank Sullivan said. “We were making plays in the second half at critical periods of time. We didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot at all when the pressure got on.” The Crimson showed a good deal of mettle in a back...