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Wide receivers Plumb and Benigno have 77 catches and eight touchdowns between them. While Plumb has been the go-to guy with 52 receptions, Benigno has been able to stretch the field with an 18.2 yard average per catch as well as five touchdowns...
...NewJersey Senator Robert Torricelli sought last week when scandal forced him to quit his reelection bid. "If he's on the phone," says a Democratic strategist, with alaugh, "you probably don't want to take the call. He's the Tony Soprano of tristate politics." Or at least the go-to guy for most of the potential Democratic contenders in 2004. Says an adviser to one: "The road to the nomination goes through the Clintons' living room...
...Robert Torricelli sought last week when scandal forced him to quit his re-election bid. "If he's on the phone," says a Democratic strategist, with a laugh, "you probably don't want to take the call. He's the Tony Soprano of tristate politics." Or at least the go-to guy for most of the potential Democratic contenders in 2004. Says an adviser to one: "The road to the nomination goes through the Clintons' living room...
...it’s not Morris’ singular talent that makes him his team’s go-to guy or the determinant of the Crimson’s destiny ths season. This is Carl Morris’ team because he is more than just a big-play receiver. This is his team because he embodies the passion of winning at all costs that has come to characterize Harvard’s program. This is his team because he possesses those famed football qualities rarely mentioned of others—the intangibles...
...again, so is Spider-Man. Maguire's own background as a lonely California kid may have been better preparation for his break-out role as the angst-ridden Spidey than hours in the gym. Before Spider-Man made him internationally famous, Maguire was known as one of Hollywood's go-to actors for troubled-youth parts: a neglected loner in The Ice Storm (1997), a teen yearning for escape in Pleasantville (1998), an orphan searching for a home in The Cider House Rules (1999), a self-destructive college student in Wonder Boys (2000). His performances were enigmatic, unpredictable and haunting...