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...August afternoon in 1985, Aldrich Hazen Ames exchanged vows with Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy in a charming little church nestled by a hill in Arlington, Virginia. It was the bridegroom's second marriage, the bride's first. The small knot of family members and friends, sweltering in the humid, 87 degreesF air, might have expected to be rewarded with a meal for their attendance. But after the ceremony, guests were offered only wine. Ames explained that he couldn't afford a fancy reception because the cost of his previous marriage's breakup had cleaned him out. Guests...
...world has seen him as a political, even polemic one, and his works are valued more as testimony against apartheid than for their subtle interplay of emotion and Beckettian sensitivity to the downtrodden. For many people, Fugard's dramas mattered less than the taboos they broke -- The Blood Knot put a black actor alongside a white one on the same Johannesburg stage -- and the punishments they brought, including revocation of his passport and virtual house arrest from 1967 to 1971. Those experiences ensured a niche in history but also made his storytelling seem limited to a place and time...
Enter exhibit A--how to work a power play.Derek Maguire received the face-off win andcrossed the puck to Chris Baird. Baird thenquickly passed to captain Sean McCann, whoone-timed it into the short side of the net byTerrier goaltender J.P. McKersie to knot the gameat...
After being quiet all game, the 6'10" Whatley swooped in the lane and dunked with just 16 seconds left in regulation. A foul by junior Fred Scott sent him to the line, and Whatley nailed the free throw to knot the score...
Garth Harries, Yale (Jr., B) Philadelphia, Pa.--Scored against Hartford with 17 seconds remaining in regulation to knot the score at three. --Compiled by the Ivy League office