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Senior outside hitter Nilly Schweitzer was the squad’s lone selection to the all-Tournament team, a group dominated by players from tourney champion Rutgers, who swept all three of its matches 3-0 to take the title in dominating fashion...
Mostly, though, John Sayles' new movie is an uninvolving muddle. At his best, which is often very good (Sunshine State, Men with Guns, Lone Star), Sayles is a master of the multilayered, multicharacter narrative, taking a dim but not entirely hopeless view of human nature. This time, though, he is betrayed by a languid style (long, distancing Steadicam takes) and a group of good actors who resolutely refuse to take charge of their characters' destinies or the plot's point. Aside from a couple of energetic performances by Richard Dreyfuss and Daryl Hannah, the actors stand around doing exposition...
Harvard’s lone goal came from Altchek, his second of the year, both of which have come unassisted. Thirty-three minutes into the game, Altchek surprised the defense when he intercepted a pass between the Furman goaltender and his teammate deep in the Paladins’ zone...
...Laker teammates--at least those who are left. As his legal team was scoring point after point, his basketball team, which lost to Detroit in the NBA finals, was disintegrating. Coach Phil Jackson is gone. So is Shaq, Gary Payton, Rick Fox and possibly Karl Malone. Bryant is the lone star, a few million dollars lighter for his legal fight--plus the $4 million "I'm sorry" ring for his wife--and toxic as a marketing personality. His contracts with McDonald's and Sprite are finished. He still has a $45 million deal with Nike, but don't expect...
...understanding of the emerging geostrategic realities and the ways in which they can be turned to advantage. Were Reagan still in office, it is almost certain that securing international cooperation would have been way down on the White House agenda. Reagan relished America's role as world policeman, a lone cowboy avenging evil. Bush knows that rounding up a posse in advance better suits today's world ... No matter how supportive the public may be of Bush's intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic ... What...