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...competitiveness. “Every time we play Ivy League teams it is always big competition,” Vaillancourt said. One big question facing Harvard is who will be starting in goal this weekend, as the Crimson has a stacked arsenal of goalkeepers. Harvard anticipated junior Brittany Martin and sophomore Christina Kessle to compete for the starting job before the season, but freshman Kylie Stephens has thrown her hat into the ring as well. Stephens racked up 13 saves in the two exhibition games against the Martlets last weekend. Harvard will look to answer these questions and more this...
...upset he's the third-best player in his draft class. Allen Iverson is upset he's the second-best player on his team. George Karl is upset he's the worst big-name coach in the league. Nene and Chuckie Atkins are upset because they're hurt. Kenyon Martin upset for the sake of being upset. Your 2007-08 Nuggets - combustible, but balanced...
LEAVE IT TO THE COMEDIAN to have the last laugh. Joey Bishop outlived all the more famous--and more raucous--Rat Packers. By the 1960s he had earned stardom alongside buddies Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. But he was never completely overshadowed by the better-known members of his cohort. In 1960 TIME wrote, "Theoretically, Joey has bottom billing, [but] as soon as he starts talking he is recognized as top banana in a newly assembled comedy act that is breaking up Vegas." Bishop later appeared in his own sitcom and filled in about...
...bald man has been voted into the White House in 12 elections. (Gerald Ford doesn't count. And neither does Dick Cheney.) Before Ike, you have to go all the way back to the election of 1836 and Martin Van Buren. But his white sideburns were so overcompensating--two enormous parentheses bracketing the nonrestrictive clause of his face--that he is seldom thought of as bald...
...Martin Kaplan, a former Democratic strategist and speechwriter who now directs the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California, says Schwarzenegger has been on local television almost constantly, projecting calm and reassurance. Kaplan's daughter attended the women's conference, he said, and she heard widespread murmurs of approval when the Governor explained his thinking. "I'm also struck by his focus on the human dimensions of the disaster," Kaplan said. "He steers clear of the bureaucracy and lasers in on the personal...