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With the game knotted at 56 and a scant 2.2 seconds left on the clock, Fischer put back his own miss for the winning hoop and the Crimson's sixth win in the last eight years at Columbia...
Harvard hopes to exploit Columbia inside and prevent it from driving to the hoop. The Lions are dead last in the Ivies in field goal percentage (.414), while they have allowed the second highest field goal percentage (.464). Harvard, however, has had the most porous defense so far in the Ivy season, allowing foes to shoot at a blistering .484 pace...
...Hoop Dreams...
Then Reinhard stole the ball and scored off a beautiful drive to the hoop. She similarly followed up with a deuce from the inside...
...have to worry about Little Women. As a movie, it is exotic in all the wrong ways for today's market -- all hoop-skirts, candlelight and genteel language. In Louisa May Alcott's world, heavy snowfall was a big-time special effect, sausages for breakfast made for a woozily joyful Christmas, and it was omnipresent death, not omnipresent divorce, that threatened childhood's serenity. Can a movie that faithfully reflects this life -- at once harder and more innocent than ours -- and does so without condescension, preachment or gross sentiment, make its way in our times...