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Against St. John's. James had a good game. In 23 minutes, James got off 13 shots and scored nine points, grabbed six rebounds and was a nuisance on defense, picking up several loose balls. A good first outing for a freshman. Good, but not great...
...songwriting took less than a year. There are nine new tunes on this album and enough material left over to give Robertson a strong head start on the next one. The recording took another full year. Together with Producer ; Daniel Lanois, who worked with U2 on The Joshua Tree, Robertson came up with a silky, soaring sound that is ethereal and sporting at the same time, just what you might hear from a roadhouse located down an off ramp just south of the pearly gates...
...records and met with little success in treatment programs. Drinking was a habit they seemed to pick up on their own, with little encouragement from friends or other influences. When Cloninger checked how often alcoholism appeared in the sons of men who fit this description, he found it surfaced nine times as often as in the general population. This variation of the disease, Cloninger concludes, is heavily influenced by heredity. Because it appears primarily in men, he calls this form "male limited" alcoholism...
Harvard was led by the epee team, which took eight of nine bouts. Captain Jim O'Neil--last year's NCAA champion--and junior Adam Weintraub spearheaded the attack by winning all of their bouts...
...because realistically it could not do that. A soccer player's career lasts 27 years from the age of 10 until about the age of 37. The four years from 18 until 21--at Harvard roughly a total of 240 hours of training--don't determine future success. The nine years from 10-18, the environment, and the innate characteristics of the player determine his future. Two-hundred-and-forty hours over four years is nothing when compared to the 400 or so hours that kids in soccer environments spend in contact with the ball each year...