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...Crimson guards were heavily pressured up top by URI's smaller players, allowing the undersized low-post Rams some time to battle for precious position against Harvard's offensive stars. The result was success for Rhode Island...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Lose 70-58, Drop Fourth in a Row | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

...Camera: The Photographs of F. Holland Day, at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, is full of precious works, the produce of a rich New Englander with good intentions and a penchant for Japanese knick-knacks. Looking at "Marble Faun," one wonders how Day took himself seriously. Historical sympathy will provide all the answers, of course, but the juxtaposition of photography with such old-fashioned subject matter and composition still seems unusual. It is strange to see sharp, crisp weeds that could be a picture in a biology textbook within the same frame as the 19th-century figure...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: THE HEADY SUBLIMATIONS OF REDISCOVERED PHOTOGRAPHER F. HOLLAND DAY | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...time the lunchtime recess rolled around at 12:30, more than five hours into the trial, Richman had called three witnesses - and been admonished once by Clark for wasting the court's precious time. And if he had an unfairness-to-Democrats trump card that could persuade Clark to throw Seminole County's 15,000 absentee-ballot babies out with the bathwater, he hadn't played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seminole Bomb Hasn't Gone Off Yet | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...NSync in Harvard Yard, a 24-hour music video marathon, and a road trip to TRL. E-mail acasill@fas for more info on how to join... What's with all the pop star make-overs? To compensate for the stagnant sounds, singers are choosing to toy with their precious images. Jennifer Lopez has renamed herself "JLo," and she parades around with glittery cornrows and the rapper-esque moniker on tight-fitting t-shirts. Justin Timberlake is trying desperately to grow a goatee, but he still looks like a kid wishing and hoping for puberty. The Backstreet Boys all have...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...professional scene has provided us with precious little to cheer about this winter, with the possible exception of Celtics head fraud Rick Pitino threatening at a press conference last week that he is really serious this time about leaving the team at the end of this season...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Legends of the Fall: For Sox Fans, It's Time to Take One for the Team | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

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