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into foul trouble, Harvard will have to capitalize on free-throw opportunities. For the season, Northeastern is 51-of-83 from the line (59.3 percent), whereas its opponents have converted on 101-of-137 chances from the charity stripe...
Against Dartmouth on Wednesday night, Harvard shot an impressive 89.5 percent from the line, with 17 of the Crimson's 66 points coming from the stripe...
...area for Northeastern has been its rebounding this season. The Huskies have been out-rebounded by an average of 5.5 boards per game. While junior Tyrone Hammick leads the team with 6.5 rebounds per game, he has gotten little support from the rest of his teammates on the front line this year...
...Statue of Liberty--his first look at the beloved United States for which he's yearned for so long. As the score swells and Frank beams with delight, there's a moment of suspense before you realize that a chorus of ragged Irish immigrants isn't actually going to line up behind him and start singing "America, the Beautiful." This scene is a far cry from the real ending--in which Frank sets foot on American land and promptly beds down a Poughkeepsie housewife...
Gordimer appropriates for the title of Living, a compilation of some of her non-fiction essays and speeches, the corniest line in fellow Nobel-laureate's Seamus Heaney's corniest poem: Once in a lifetime/...hope and history rhyme...