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...told his players must have worked, as the Bulldogs came out of the timeout and outmatched the Crimson for the rest of the game. Junior center Brian Cusworth led Harvard with a career high of 24 points, including 6-of-6 from the free throw line. The Crimson was perfect overall from the line, finishing at 20-for-20 on the game. While Cusworth was a strong force inside on the offensive end, there was little he or anyone else could do to stop Martin down low. Martin made 12-of-18 field goal attempts and for the most part...
...novel suffers from several less-than-perfect attempts at recreating the evocative magic of Proust’s madeleine—employing peanut butter and jelly instead to achieve the “mnemonic power of a simple sandwich”—and it somewhat overeagerly propounds a pastoral ideal as the key to “the good life...
Jacobellis' party prior to the finish was the only blemish on a near perfect week. The poster child for the boarders, her blond braids were featured in a ubiquitous pre-Olympics Visa ad, where a nervous Jacobellis can't focus until her coach tells her to pretend that someone stole her check card. Cute. One problem--no card will buy her way out of this colossal embarrassment. "I can move on; it's just a race," she says. Just stay away from the replays...
...billion birds, many of them sharing living space with people?the same epidemiological powder keg that enabled bird flu to cause so much damage in much of Southeast Asia. Avian-flu experts see impoverished Africa, with its inefficient governments and millions of immuno-compromised HIV infectees, as a perfect breeding ground for a pandemic...
...Kennedy says. And only the labels pay those marketing costs. EMI has a reputation for investing heavily in artist development. It's got high hopes for several new acts, including New York City rockers Morningwood and Corinne Bailey Rae, a jazzy chanteuse from Leeds, England. Her case is a perfect illustration of marketing in the age of downloads. Rae's single, the soulful Put Your Records On, was released on the Net earlier this month, and is already a radio favorite. A few weeks later, it's now also available on that old-fashioned, once-profitable format known...