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...scored two goals and notched an assist—six different Crimson players found the back of the net. Senior Caroline Simmons, junior Sarah Bancroft, and freshman Jess Halpern each contributed two goals, while captain Natalie Curtis added the first tally on the day. The Crimson stayed neck-and-neck with the Quakers in the first, pulling ahead 5-4 on a Halpern score with 9:37 to go. But Penn’s offense began to break through when Quaker senior Chelsea Kocis tied the game at 5-5 with 8:15 left in the half, opening the floodgates...
...side to do justice to his star bulk, physically and psychologically. Beyond the stupendous torso, he gave the impression of thinking out his dialogue before he spoke it; he was a pensive glamour boy. Like fellow postwar stars Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, he'd tense his neck muscles and speak in a sonorous growl that brought authority and menace to his speeches; he could make piety sound robust. But where Lancaster and Douglas were kinetic, bursting with restlessness, Heston was essentially static - not so much statuesque as a statue in some audio-animatronic hall of Heroes. He stood...
...EIVA and clinched a playoff berth for the Hay Division.The Violets started off the match strong, notching a hitting percentage of .441 to the Crimson’s .276. NYU’s offensive edge secured a 30-24 victory in the first stanza.The Crimson and the Violets remained neck-and-neck throughout the second frame, keeping the score close until the teams reached a 29-29 tie. But NYU slammed down a game-winning kill after Harvard committed an untimely attacking error, clinching the game at 31-29.In the third and final game, NYU seemed to have won the match...
Before he turned 13, Cuban Jazz musician Israel (Cachao) López was playing professionally--though he had to stand on a wooden crate to reach the neck of his bass. In 1937 he and his brother Orestes composed a tune called El Danzón Mambo, which later rocketed to popularity simply as the mambo when the pace was slowed for dancing. His freestyle jam sessions paved the way for groups like the Buena Vista Social Club, with whom his nephew now plays bass. Throughout his career, López was revered by fellow musicians, but he was launched to international fame...
...Clinton and Obama and then turned out to vote in record numbers for the primary election, which was remarkably blooper-free by Sunshine State standards. All the while they were convinced that in the end the DNC would never shut out their delegates, especially with Clinton and Obama running neck-and-neck into the spring...