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Following two consecutive Lehigh decisions that gave the Mountain Hawks a one-point lead, senior Pat O’Donnell (174 lbs.) put the Crimson back on top, 8-5, by defeating Luke Calvert...
...book business is a strange realm: whereas it's rare to sell millions of copies in a year (the anomaly of Harry Potter aside), the books tend to have an enduring shelf life. What other product created in the 1940s still sells well, almost completely unaltered? Goodnight Moon, Pat the Bunny and The Poky Little Puppy, sexagenarians nearly all; each still moves more than 150,000 hardbacks just about every year. And let's not even start on Dr. Seuss or P.D. Eastman. (Well, we can start: Green Eggs and Ham sold more than 500,000 copies...
...high school for troubled kids in Los Angeles County, has been a model around the country. It serves 75 students, mostly Latinos from nearby East L.A. Their infractions range from truancy to firearm possession, drug selling and sexual assault. There are no window bars, security guards, metal detectors or pat-downs at the front door--just a friendly receptionist and a big, brightly colored bulletin board welcoming all visitors. "If we installed security devices, we'd be telling our kids that we don't trust them," says Cathleen Corella, the principal, who proudly reports that there have been just five...
...past the part of the room where coach Peter Brand posted the Columbia Spectator’s account of the Harvard men’s team’s 14-13 upset of Columbia on Nov. 24. In the article, Columbia whined about equipment failure and personnel and offered Pat Riley-esque reflections on what happens when gun machines meet knives. You learn from competitors even when you haven’t faced any for a while...
...able to run off screens like Pat’s so good at doing,” Merchant said of not having Prasse-Freeman on the floor. “It takes away a guy like Elliott finding the big men close to the rim when people do overplay Pat. It does hurt us, but at the same time, Elliott couldn’t avoid those five fouls. Their two guards are tough to handle, and he did everything he could. We were all committing a lot of fouls tonight...