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...fourth foul and coach told me to play hard, play my game.”The fifth foul never came and Wright got another bucket with a nice spin on Penn forward Cameron Lewis to pull his team within one at 53-52 with five minutes left.NOT SO KILLER POne of the most perplexing happenings in the league this season has been Penn’s play at home. The perennial Ivy contender has looked the part on the road, where it is 4-1, but at home, the Quakers are a surprising 0-4.Two weeks ago, Penn was swept...
...from serving in the state's National Guard, Graham has hewed to the right on social issues. He got a 96% rating from the American Conservative Union last year, and a zero from NARAL Pro-Choice America. As a House member, Graham caught the nation's attention playing corn-pone puritan as a House manager in Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. "Where I come from," Graham memorably drawled during the trial in the Senate chamber, as he described a phone call the President made to Monica Lewinsky, "you call somebody at 2:30 in the morning...
But—and this is where the new baseball caps come in—we ought not to abandon blindly-held beliefs for other, more fashionable, blindly-held beliefs. In “Corn-Pone Opinions,” a short piece in Europe and Elsewhere, Mark Twain writes that there is “hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies...
...film (directed by Andy Tennant) has more problems than Melanie, and they're insoluble. Its lazy calculation telegraphs each plot turn and underlines emotions with corn-pone music. And the decision to turn Melanie into a snarky city critter, who must spend the film's second half apologizing to everyone she insulted in the first half, sabotages Witherspoon's ability to be the full star package: pretty, smart and caring...
...world of Dena Nordstrom, a glamorous TV newswoman, people come in two varieties: corn pone and ruthless shark. The former populate the safe, static Missouri town of Dena's early youth, and the latter stalk the corridors of Manhattan, where career-obsessed Dena collapses from stress. She's forced finally to confront the hole at the middle of her existence: the unexplained disappearance of her mother when Dena was just 15. As the narrative shifts in time and place to unravel the mystery, the action is as shamelessly unsubtle as the characters are cliched. That said, this third novel from...