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...Gorky who got right to the point. "If Picasso drips," he said, "I drip." That was in the late 1930s, a time when deciphering Picasso's intentions, getting inside his darting, catch-me-if-you-can progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso...
...before a draw would have been called, the goal from sophomore Mike Fucito yesterday came 43 seconds before the end of overtime. “We were the better team, we pressured them the whole game,” Fucito said. “So it was just a matter of time before things were going to go our way.” In the final five minutes of the game, the Crimson offense was peppering the Stags’ goaltender, Jon Paul Francini, with shots, registering four during that stretch. Francini was the regining MAAC Defensive Player...
...just one thought: get to the last half-mile. Get to that last stretch and everything will be fine. “Once you have only a little [of the race] left,” Galebach said, “you can gut your way through it no matter how you’re feeling.” Using a late-race surge over the last portion of the course, Galebach blasted his way to a No. 3 place finish and a time of 24:48, leading the Harvard men’s cross country team...
...season, finishing the match with a team-high 13 kills.“She has the mentality that she wants to get the job done,” Weiss said. “She’s versatile—I have a lot of confidence in her, no matter where she is.”All three games followed a similar pattern: the Crimson started strong before losing focus and fading towards the end.In the opening frame, Harvard and Princeton battled through the first few points before the Crimson jumped out to a 13-9 lead. But with Harvard...
...Gary Samore, a Clinton Administration NSC proliferation expert who is now director of studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, contends that subjecting the North Koreans to financial stress and a naval blockade would only make matters worse. The North could retaliate, he says, by "stirring up trouble in the Sea of Japan or sending patrols into the DMZ... If things really got out of hand, you'd have increased military alerts and clashes on the Korean peninsula that would cause jitters in Seoul. And there's always a danger that these things will get pretty hairy." To China, Japan...