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...defensive presence kept the game close. With less than five minutes left, the two teams were tied 52-52. Yale pulled away on a 6-0 run, forcing the Crimson to come from behind with time running out.“[The last few minutes] were hell. It changed from us being in the driver’s seat to playing catch up,” said co-captain Lindsay Hallion, who led the team with 15 points.With 30 seconds remaining, Finelli drained a three to bring the Crimson to within one point of the Bulldogs, 59-58. Co-captain...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bulldogs Upend Crimson’s Hopes for Outright Title | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...familiarity. Winter is approaching in a small town where the high school band teacher (a brief role played with curt comic brio by Tom Noonan) shouts challenges at the students: "Do you have a sledgehammer in your heart? Are you ready to be my sledgehammer?" The hammers of hell beat in the hearts of these frosty folk; for Snow Angels, like a bunch of other films set in cold climates (The Ice Storm, The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, A Simple Plan, Fargo, this year's Sundance winner Frozen River), is about people who will do anything to get warm, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snow Angels and Married Life: Wedded Blisters | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...through the desert, Bock welds the character’s vocabulary together with an acute sense of the details of Las Vegas’ man-made oasis of asphalt and neon: “Ponyboy’s style was hauling ass, blazing through the smoldering afternoons, pedaling like hell over blacktop that had steam rising in waves above it.” The style can be fun to read and often pulls off some impressive verbal pyrotechnics, but these are often nullified when Bock gives too much to the reader. When, for example, he cutely projects the future lives...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Beautiful Children’ Stuck in Loop | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...intervene before matters get out of hand. (Dean remains largely out of the fight, saying in a statement only that "as we head toward November, our nominee must have the united support of a strong Democratic Party.") "I'm really worried," Brazile says. "Who opened up the gates of hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Collateral Damage | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...traveling exhibit of over 100 photographs and video testimonials—he served in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) for two years.“The first time you point your gun at a child, you immediately lower the gun and think, ‘What the hell is going on?’ The second time you just lower your gun. The third, seventh, and 17th time it happens, it becomes normal,” he says. “This is how things that you thought were absurd become normal.”The exhibit, which opened last...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Soldiers’ Untold Stories | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

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