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...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...
...writing; Cold Mountain; and 1996's The English Patient, which won nine Academy Awards, among them Best Director for Minghella. The filmmaker, who had just finished shooting The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, died suddenly of a hemorrhage following surgery for a cancerous growth on his neck. Minghella...
Starting off on the right foot, the Crimson broke through a neck-and-neck struggle with the Engineers midway through the first game with two aces from Weintraub and six kills from junior captain Brady Weissbourd. Harvard continued on to breeze through the frame for a 30-22 victory...
...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...