Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overall, 5-3 Ivy) on Saturday, a respectable if not incredible middle-division Ivy League squad, Harvard won the first game, 9-5, before dropping a close second contest, 8-6. Against a downright solid Quaker team (13-7 overall, 5-3 Ivy) on Sunday, the Crimson made a heroic comeback in the first game, only to lose 10-9, and then dominated the second game...
...Crimson mounted a heroic comeback attempt with four runs in that inning, but the lead held...
...knowledge of the blues tells Raitt that life is a heroic struggle. "Just because you have some of your dreams realized," she says, "doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be content." The hurt and the hope are evident in her new album's last cut, Shadow of Doubt, in which Raitt sounds like a Mississippi field hand, bent by age and travail: "Oh but Lord no/ Don't make it easy/ Keep me workin'/ 'Til I work it on out/ Just please, please/ Shine enough light on me/ 'Til I'm free from/ This shadow of doubt...
...long way from the rough streets of Belfast, where he began his activist career. Only two days before the attacks, he was rambling through the streets of west Belfast in a cold drizzle. He paused in front of a rubble heap, which for him was a monument to a heroic political struggle, not just the remnants of a high-rise public housing project. "These new houses are an improvement," he said, pointing to the neat brick homes surrounding the demolition site. His voice was mellow as he recounted his long battle with British authorities to get the dreary apartment blocks...
...Seven on trial with the Guildford Four, though the cases were tried separately. In some of its most affecting scenes, it shows Conlon, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, sharing a jail cell with his father, though the two were often not even in the same prison. A grand and heroic part is carved for actress Emma Thompson, playing Conlon's solicitor, Gareth Peirce, but in reality Peirce was a minor figure and another attorney, Alastair Logan, deserves most of the credit for freeing the Four. A pivotal scene in which Peirce smuggles a crucial piece of suppressed evidence from...