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...what we needed at that point.” But as much as the youngsters prize their minutes, they were only available because the Crimson faltered in their fifth straight Ancient Eight contest, and dropped their 14th road game in 15 tries. “Obviously, winning is paramount,” Blankenau said. “But when your number gets called you have to be ready no matter what the situation is.” —Staff writer Jonathan Lehman can be reached at jlehman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Bernardo Provenzano, his successor and lifelong Corleone paesano, are both serving life terms in Italy. They were allegedly about to rebuild their "Old Bridge" between America and Sicily, reestablishing the business and drug trafficking ties between the Sicilian and American mobs. For a while, that relationship had been paramount in the netherworld as the Gambinos reigned supreme in the 1970s and 1980s. Arriving in the early '80s, the exiled Inzerillos were content to lie low under the protection of their powerful relatives. But the Gambino era would not last for long. In the mid-80s, 22 Sicily-born defendants were...
...these white-capped, blue dwarfs are getting set for the silver screen: Paramount Pictures is currently developing a CGI 3D Smurf feature through its Nickelodeon Films unit that would bring the mischievous creatures to a whole new generation (the currently untitled movie is tentatively scheduled for a 2010 release). In parallel, IMPS (International Merchandising, Promotion & Services) which runs the Smurf empire, is working on its own new cutting-edge animation that could revive the dormant television series once again...
...greatest audience. He returned to Tokyo in the late 1960s and marked his first big success with a specially formulated cleansing oil, inculcating to generations of women that oil, which preserves moisture, also left skin cleaner than soap. The health of a woman's skin, he believed, was paramount and Uemura's reputation was for enhancing natural beauty - not artificially creating...
...Control of Cricket in India, which runs the game in its most lucrative market, says it wants the International Cricket Council "to review the decision of the match referee and suspend its operation till the appeal is disposed of ... The Indian board realizes the game of cricket is paramount but so, too, is the honor of the Indian team and for that matter every Indian. To vindicate its position the Board will fight the blatantly false and unfair slur on an Indian player." In India, protestors burned the umpires and the Australian captain Ricky Ponting in effigy and newspapers called...