Word: gem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite 11 hits in game two, Harvard could muster only two runs against Penn pitcher Suzanne Arbogast. But Brown and Thoke made up for the Crimson's offensive inefficiency by combining to throw a gem...
...name and spirit--and gained some attitude. After a move downtown to the swanky Lenox Hotel and a complete make-over, Anago has ratcheted up its image a few major notches. In its previous incarnation at 798 Main Street (now home of Salts Restaurant), Anago Bistro was a hidden gem--intimate, understated, and consistently excellent. Alas, popularity corrupts. With the move toward self-iconization and the strategic new location, Anago's former cachet has been exploited. The larger, hipper Anago is struggling to adapt to its new image...
...dollars in aid and investment, the Khmer Rouge found itself on the sidelines politically and economically, unable to buy the motorcycles and television sets that were proliferating across the country. A small trickle of defectors in the early '90s became a flood by 1996, when cadres in the gem-mining town of Pailin, the other principal Khmer Rouge base, joined the government side...
Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while, a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...
Abeles' drama almost overshadows the dominant effort of senior pitcher Tasha Cupp (10-3), who tossed a three-hit, 12-strikeout gem in the opener. A three-run home run by junior Tara LaSovage was the game winner in the first game...