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Lawrence's style, naturally lit and roughly realistic, matches the writing. Lantana sometimes has the air of a routine police procedural, sometimes the quality of a dour film noir. But this movie, so alert to mischance and dreams that don't quite work out as they should, has a good soul, a heart yearning for decency. What's terrific about it is the way it lets us discover those qualities subtly, inferentially...
...still tells a nice, uplifting economic story. Greenspan practically leaned back in his armchair and lit a pipe as he recounted, as if to the grandkids, the U.S. economy's bumpy journey from the "frenetic" tech investment boom of the late '90s to the "fierce and unrelenting" decline in same that, sharpened by Sept. 11, has landed us in our current predicament. Considering the height of our heights, this recession - if indeed 2002 is a recovery year - has been a "relatively mild downturn...
...worst 36.1 percentage, a number that has been inflated a bit by the team’s reliance on the zone this year. Harvard nearly allowed Dartmouth to get back into the second half of Saturday’s game when the Big Green’s Keri Downs lit up the Crimson for 15 points from outside...
...vehicles, laptops in our laps, filing stories and pictures to news-hungry editors for as long as our batteries would last. But we were not alone. Even with the car windows wound up, bemused mujahedin crowded around and, for hours, watched us work at our brightly lit computers. Their faces pressed on the glass, discussions thrived about what we were doing. We were the best entertainment in a long time. That night we all slept in one room, weapons between us and blankets pulled over our heads, in makeshift cocoons, against the below-zero chill...
Monti had just five three-pointers in her first eight games, but has since lit up opponents for 13 in Harvard’s last five contests, including three against the Big Green. Monti’s improved shooting has been critical to the recent improvement in Peljto’s and Cserny’s production, giving defenses one more threat to worry about...