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...sophomore year, Hill started on a 17-9 team that boasted superstars like Snowden, Chris Grancio '97 and Mike Scott '98 and that managed to knock off Penn at Lavietes. It would be the Crimson's only win against the Quakers in Hill's four years and symbolized a leap into the Ivy's top tier...
...Gyorffy's most impressive performance was yet to come. Setting both an Ivy League record, as well as a Heptagonals record, Gyorffy notched a first-place win in the high jump with a leap of 6-1 1/5. Brown's Emily Owens, the second-place finisher, was out-jumped by almost four inches...
...fellows are slapping cleavage on their covers--in homage, it would appear, to Maxim. Whereas Details used to feature the stubbly likes of Stephen Dorff, the current number is graced by Elizabeth Hurley, touched up in such an unsubtle way that her breasts fairly leap off the page; it's as if they were eyeballs in a Tex Avery cartoon, ogling themselves. The accompanying profile opens with Hurley's complaining about having her chest photographically enlarged on the cover of Cosmo, which only goes to highlight the curious synchronicity between men's and women's magazines (but that's another...
...Nature, researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham report that Marilyn's frozen tissue, carefully preserved all these years, may have solved a pair of lingering medical mysteries: where the dominant form of the AIDS virus originated in the animal world, and how it made the deadly leap to humans. More than brilliant scientific detective work, the Alabama research, if it turns out to be correct, could lead to new treatments and possibly even a cure for a fatal disease that afflicts more than 35 million people around the globe...
...star egos and pocketbooks. So the seven clients with ties to both CAA and Ovitz's new AMG were appalled at their predicament. The rest of the town was enthralled. THE GREAT CAA-OVITZ WAR: WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?, blared the Hollywood Reporter. Would Madonna make the leap? (Maybe, maybe not.) Would Spielberg? (Absolutely not, he said, since CAA packaged his hit Saving Private Ryan.) But of the seven who got the ultimatum, director Martin Scorsese and actors Marisa Tomei and Mimi Rogers have joined the Ovitz roster. CAA may yet lose the four others--director Sydney Pollack...