Word: markers
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Mazza was injured on the second play of Harvard’s game-tying drive as he attempted to block one of Brown’s defensive backs at the first-down marker. As running back Clifton Dawson neared the spot, he, Mazza, and a number of Bears defenders were tossed into the same heap, with Mazza somewhere near the bottom. As the pile thinned, Mazza was slow to get up, the damage already apparent...
...Barsuk Records, an independent label so tiny that it gets most of its mail at a P.O. box. With Plans, the band moves to the hulking multinational Atlantic, and even though big record companies are in danger of mismanaging themselves into irrelevance, the major-label debut remains an important marker in a group's development, kind of like a rock-'n'-roll Bar Mitzvah. There's a big stage, lots of buzz, some singing and, if everything goes well, checks with impossibly large numbers waiting...
...says he handed Hadley his only copy. Still, last week he referred reporters to a recently reconstructed version of the chart in his office where, among dozens of names and photos of terrorists from around the world, there was a color mug shot of Mohammad Atta, circled in black marker...
...survivors out of fear they could contaminate others. French photographer Gerard Rancinan traveled to Hiroshima this year to photograph the hibakusha and record their stories. Seventy agreed to pose, some holding childhood photos or pictures of family members killed in the bombing. The survivors wrote their names in white marker next to their portraits and recorded how far they were from ground zero on Aug. 6. Taken together, the pictures are striking reminders of the bomb's life-altering effects. And they bear witness to the human capacity to withstand the worst ravages...
...Fever Pitch is a useful marker. Jimmy and Drew were everywhere-they were on the Today show all week long, and so were the Farrellys. Weren?t they? Letterman. Leno. The EW cover with Johnny. Big smiles everywhere. And everyone said the movie was sweet and lovely and you had to see it. But not everyone did, and it closed pretty quickly, and life went on. It?s mid-July now, and you just know Fever Pitch is going to be out on DVD-a lesser experience-any second. Drew and the Farrellys are off to make their next, more...