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...three minutes and 19 seconds of equine magic. By taking the 3,200-m Melbourne Cup in 2003 and 2004, Makybe had become one of just five dual winners in the 144-year history of Australia's best-loved horse race. None had managed the elusive hat trick. So on Nov. 1 the 106,480 people at the Flemington track (and around 10 million Australian television viewers), many of them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn...
...were unequivocally positive. In fact, Turkey gave women voting rights before Spain or France, two current EU nations. Yet, amidst the decaying ruins of the once-mighty Ottoman Empire, he vanquished many other defining characteristics of the Turkish culture. In a 99.8 percent Sunni Muslim nation, the fez (conical hat worn by Muslim men) and headscarves were banned from all public buildings and cultural life in general. Just a couple of years ago, Prime Minister Erdogan’s wife was banned from public events because she wore headscarves. In a “Modern Republic,” prosecution...
...first loss to Holy Cross since becoming head coach at Harvard seven years ago. “[The Crusaders] had a lot to prove,” Kerr said. “They got a nice squad. I thought they played really well. I tip my hat off to them. They beat us in every facet of the game today...
...pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have been turning true crime into artful entertainment ever since Alfred Hitchcock dredged up the story of Ed Gein from Psycho's swamp...
LOWELL, Mass.—Mark Pandolfo had a hat trick, including an empty-net shot in the final second, to lead Massachusetts-Lowell to a 7-4 win over Boston University Friday night...