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...whose soapy melodramas like All That Heaven Allows (1955) are respected by film buffs for their baroque sentimentality and cynical undertones. Directed by Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven stars Julianne Moore as a white 1950s housewife who falls for her black gardener (Dennis Haysbert), scandalizing the suburban populace of Hartford, Conn. Quaid is her overachieving husband, who confesses to her that he's gay. The expertly rendered performance (plus his own comeback story) could get Quaid his first Oscar nomination. "I had success back in the '80s, but I never really appreciated it then," he says. "I was on drugs...
Harvard has typically succeeded in scheduling all the Northeast teams that might garner NCAA berths—like Boston College, Boston University, and Hartford, so most NCAA selection decisions can be based more on head-to-head results. URI’s contention for an at-large bid was unprecedented, so Harvard did not play the Rams. So unlike past years, Harvard’s NCAA fate wasn’t as well decided on the field...
...shockingly good shape to make the tournament for a team that’s presently .500. The Crimson is the fourth best team in the Northeast behind UConn, Dartmouth and Yale—all of whom beat the Crimson. Harvard’s in even better shape than Hartford, who it lost to as well, since the Hawks have had so many bad in-conference losses. The region’s top five teams all made the tournament in 2000 when the field was 48 teams, and the region’s top seven teams made...
Harvard has typically had stronger nonconference wins to its credit. Last year the Crimson beat both NCAA qualifying Boston University and Hartford. This year, Harvard lost to Hartford and beat BU, but the Terriers are sub-.500 this year. That hurts because primary selection criteria include record against teams already selected for the tournament and teams under consideration...
Harvard coach Tim Wheaton has long said that the difficult schedule would be the perfect preparation for Ivy and regional play, but the team’s unusually disappointing results against Yale and Hartford this season have done nothing to support his claim...