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...good news for John McCain, who always looked his best in an uphill climb, is that this plateau will be brief. After five years spent getting McCain-Feingold to the Senate floor and two weeks dodging bullets once it got there, McCain-Feingold passed the Senate in an anticlimactic 59-41 roll-call vote Monday evening...
Instead, the 40-point plateau went to his younger brother, sophomore center Dominic Moore, and Steve occasionally looked only too eager to control the puck too long to take the shot himself...
...final appearance in a Crimson uniform, Clemente had his sixth career double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Harvard is now 5-1 when Clemente reaches that plateau...
...meticulously conscious structures. His power of organization was awesome; his spread of quotation, wide. What caused the individual citations to hang together, though, was his eye for nature. Nowhere is this clearer than in his huge composition of 1937, The Mountain. Every one of the figures on this plateau of the Bernese Oberland is quoted from somewhere else--the girl lying down in the foreground comes from a Poussin, and so on. The green-capped rocks are real, but they are also inspired by Courbet's landscapes. But what so lifts the picture is its soft, rapturous golden light, bathing...
...sputtering Crimson enters the final weekend of the season playing only for pride. A sweep over Columbia and Cornell would bring the squad to the .500 plateau in the Ivy League...