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That may have consequences for people like Marguerite Simon, 82. She worked hard cleaning other people's homes, earning just enough to buy into the Ninth Ward, one of New Orleans' poorest neighborhoods. She was wearing rubber gloves, rubber boots and a paper face mask last week, cleaning black amoebic splotches of mold off precious family treasures. Inside the small house, her well-made furniture, with its carved arms and curved legs, lay scattered as if some giant Mixmaster had been whirling away. Sitting on her tiny porch, she managed a laugh. "You have to laugh," she said...
...screenwriter Steve Kloves, who have worked on the whole series, handed the job to Mike Newell, a Brit who has directed a few good, tense melodramas (Dance With a Stranger, Donnie Brasco) and some engaging sentimental fare (Enchanted April, Four Weddings and a Funeral), as well as the ninth-worst movie ever made (his last one, Mona Lisa Smile...
...Basketball Women’s Collegiate Committee selected her to head the team, with LSU head coach Pokey Chatman and BC head coach Cathy Inglese taking associate positions. The appointment came in the wake of Delaney-Smith’s ninth Ivy League title, which Harvard shared with Dartmouth a year...
...honorable mention and Ivy League Rookie of the Year. She also received third-team All-America status as a junior. The captain will graduate in June as the fifth-leading scorer in Crimson history with 63 points. Her marks of 20 career goals and 23 assists are good for ninth- and third-best all-time, respectively. McDavitt also owns the single-season record for helpers with 18, a league-leading total she established in 2004. Sackovich, who helped anchor an at-times stellar Harvard backfield, is no stranger to distinction herself. The senior was second-team All-Ivy last year...
...Harvard men’s and women’s cross-country teams concluded their seasons Saturday in the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships at Boston’s Franklin Park. The men finished eighth in the 33-team field, while the women placed ninth among 37 teams. Sophomore Lindsey Scherf placed fifth in the women’s event, qualifying for the NCAA Championships. Scherf paced the Crimson women with a time of 20:34.7, part of a pack of four women within seven seconds of winner Fiona Crombie of Providence. “We were all kind of fighting...