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Propelled by a solid starting perfor...
...exile in France, penning a sprawling novel, Soul Mountain, partially about his flight. In 2000, it helped him win an utterly unexpected Nobel Prize in Literature, the first by a Chinese author. To many writers, the Nobel has proved a curse, triggering furious envy from rivals, and intensifying crippling perfor-mance anxiety. And some critics carped that Gao was an undeserving mediocrity, hinting that he won only because of his relationship with Goran Malmqvist, his Swedish translator and the sole Chinese-speaking member of the Nobel-awarding Swedish Academy?a charge Malmqvist denies. For Gao, it has been a trying...
Around 8:30 p.m., Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles began a series of toasts to the Dean, which were followed by a birthday cake and a perfor- mance by the Krokodiloes...
Miller was all confidence, recording 18 saves in a brilliant perfor-mance that should silence sieve chants forever. And for most of the afternoon, long-stickers Chris Bentley and the Murphy brothers--Mike and Dennis--prevented feeds to Tiger crease strongman Justin Tortolani, who was also held at bay by Dan Berkery...
...abortive drive was typical of the Crimson's perfor- mance most of the afternoon. Leo and Grant were spectacular. Leo, who had not been expected to play because of a hamstring pull, gained 84 yards on 18 carries. Grant ran 22 times for 76 yards. Yet only once--on their touchdown drive in the third quarter--did the Crimson penetrate Princeton's 30-yard line...