Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter what Jackson does, it tends to come out negative in the press. For example, Ben Ammar says, Jackson's recent tour--42 gigs in Europe and South Africa--was a commercial smash, yet it received mainly sniping coverage. According to Ben Ammar, the tour matched the $100 million gross brought in by Jackson's 1996 swing through Asia, and was even more profitable, because operational costs were slashed 50%. Ben Ammar says Jackson netted $15 million instead of going in the red. That is music to the ears, even in Saudi Arabia...
While The Crimson is normally a respectable publication and usually sensitive to minority issues, I feel that in this circumstance the gross negligence of assuming that spelling a Slavic name incorrectly is not important is offensive not only to all students of Slavic extraction, but also to those of us who feel that all cultures are important...
Referee Reta Brown was not having any of it, though. It was late in regulation before she registered her first and only booking, a yellow card to George Mason's Jenn Gross for unsportsmanlike conduct after Keren Gudeman was pulled down in the visitors' half...
Browning can certainly not be faulted for the goal which George Mason scored in the 48th minute, and she can certainly be credited for preventing another in the 90th minute, when she quite literally "took one for the team". Browning rushed out the net to deny Gross on a breakaway chance which might have ended Harvard's season. Her valiant effort was successful, but it also cost her the opportunity to finish what she had started...
...CHRISTMAS WISH] Another Santa Clause ($145 mil. domestic gross...