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...Harvard women's lacrosse team, that title is indisputeably held by senior Sarah Winters. The midfielder/attacker leads the team with 32 goals--next-best on the team is 17--and is second on the team in assists (15) and ground balls...
...truth is that until Pulp Fiction barged in, Cannes this year had no strong prize contenders. Instead, it presented a roundup of best directors' next-best films. The Chinese master Zhang Yimou sent To Live; the film, which spans 30 years of Maoist hard times, is beautifully observed and performed (the male lead, Ge You, won the Best Actor prize), but lacks the fiery power of Zhang's Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern. Nikita Mikhalkov intended his Burned by the Sun as a Russian Gone With the Wind, a story of country life amid the turmoil of tyranny...
...line of thinking was 'if you must hire a Black, then here's how to do it,"' Hall says. "There was even a hierarchy of quality: first we were told to look for a British-trained African; next a West-Indian, which was presumably the next-best thing to someone British-trained; and as a last resort, we could maybe find an educated American Negro...
With a one-on-one interview ruled out, Makihara, 34, who has also lived and attended school in Britain and the U.S., searched out the next-best sources of information: Owada's friends and acquaintances. "We interviewed more than 20 people who know her, and tried to piece together a portrait from their anecdotes," she says. "Her childhood friends had the most to say, perhaps because she went to the same school in Japan for nearly seven years...
...Three-point field-goal percent age. This one's a no-brainer. Harvard shot an amazing 44 percent from downtown. Yale, the next-best team, shot 34 percent...