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...jumper to tie the game at 27 with 2:22 to play in the first half, Harvard looked in control of the game. Co-captain Lindsay Hallion responded with a jumper of her own just over a minute before halftime, and Wheeler collected the rebound from a Hallion miss and drained a baseline shot as the period expired. Wheeler’s jumper enlivened the crowd and the Crimson, and the slim halftime lead served as a wakeup call for the defending league champions. After Cornell kept pace with Harvard’s two wins with a Princeton-Penn sweep...
During the sentencing proceedings immediately following the verdict, Al-Janabi's son Mustafa said to the jury, "I know this criminal has a wife and family and they will miss him when you put him in jail, but we also miss our father. I hope you will consider that. Please don't forget about us." Speaking to the jury himself, Vela asked for leniency. "I am sorry that all I can say is that I am sorry and ask for your mercy. I failed your standards and I failed...
Superheroes, jugglers, Miss Massachusetts, a South African flag, and loud, colorful gentlemen in drag ushered Charlize Theron through the Square yesterday in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ annual Woman of the Year parade. Sandwiched between two actors—a belly dancer and a yellow-coifed drag queen wearing insect antenna—the Oscar-winning actress shouted to the driver of the orange Bentley convertible in which she rode. “I did the ‘Italian Job,’” she said. “Do you want me to take over...
...their outsized influence in American society, celebrities have enjoyed relatively little power in helping to sway modern-day elections. Sure, Hollywood bigwigs rarely miss an opportunity to voice their support for a chosen candidate, but their impact has typically been felt in the fund-raising arena, and more often during the Democratic primaries, when a celebrity endorsement is less liable to create a backlash among more conservative voters. Americans may flock out and buy soap, beer or cars because of celebrity endorsements, but voters by and large don't like being told whom to vote for by their favorite...
...from the couch for another beer, you were certain to miss a key play or substitution. A new poll in California, for instance, that showed Romney pulling ahead. Or another press conference in which McCain called out his chief rival as a big spender without backbone. Or the stump speech at Georgia Tech, where Romney told everyone that McCain would collapse the "house that Reagan built." Or a supporter, like former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who blurted out at a Nashville pancake place that Republican "bigwigs" were "lining up like lemmings" behind McCain. Or another endorsement. Or another television...