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Long finished out a great home season that saw him become the premier long-range shooter for the Crimson. Epitomizing the definition of captain, Long rallied his troops in the tense final minutes and made sure they didn't lose their poise as they had against Princeton...
...skill of the dancers and the creative moves of the dance, but also felt myself wondering what the choreographer was trying to say and whether an underlying theme even existed. Honestly, I expected more substance from a piece that obtained rave reviews in 1998 from its New York premier. Despite the creative choreography and amazing dancers, it is simply hard to sustain an interest in a piece based solely on an appreciation for movement...
...some ways this project has turned out to be a remarkably successful bit of social engineering. The top universities still use heredity as a factor in admissions, but on the whole they have shifted from the raccoon-coat, football-weekend paradigm of the old days, in which the premier human attribute was a hard-to-define quality called "character," to a different value system, in which being smart is first on the list of virtues and a humble background is a badge of honor...
What would you pay to party with Sharon Stone at Spago? Or sit with Bill Clinton as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power - show biz and political. House and Senate campaign committees have already emptied so many deep pockets for VIP packages that party chairman Ed Rendell is scrambling to control what bennies are left...
...been on the same spot, 1 Bow Street, for several decades and even the oldest regulars do not know when it first opened its doors. Several claimed that Bruce Springsteen had his 1969 Boston premier in the bar, performing in the corner where the jukebox now stands...