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...point deficit. Hofstra (5-4) ultimately defeated Harvard 82-68, extending the Crimson’s skid to eight games and tying its longest losing streak since the 1983-1984 season. A barrage of three-pointers put Harvard (2-9) on top 22-14 at 15:03, but the Pride fought back with an aggressive defense that dominated the boards, snatching up 44 overall, compared to the Crimson’s 28.Sophomore guard Lindsay Hallion had eight points in that first run, including two field goals from beyond the arc. Co-captain Maureen McCaffery and senior Laura Robinson both notched...
...Hwang?s disgrace shouldn?t be used as an excuse to pour scorn on the idea of therapeutic cloning itself. Ambition and pride are a danger in any high-risk, high-reward area of science, but therapeutic cloning is so promising that it needs to be pursued regardless. The potential medical advantages are enormous: by cloning a patient?s own cells to create stem cells, then coaxing those stem cells to become new pancreatic, brain, spinal cord or heart tissue, for example, it?s conceivable that a victim of Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, diabetes, paralysis or heart disease could shore...
...studied on a Fulbright fellowship in Florence with Luigi Dallapiccola, known as a Modernist master. Martino seemed to view music from a different perspective even from his fellow bohemian-like artists, said his fellow musician and roommate at Syracuse, Roy Lazarus. Not only did he take a special pride in the appearance of his works, handwriting his manuscripts in India ink, but he also did so in the structuring of his music, according to Lazarus. “[Martino] told me that it’s not only important that the parts be correct, but that the note is placed...
...Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, multiple Golden Globe nominations and with more accolades pouring in every day, the film has also experienced box-office success. The film has sold nearly ten times as many advance tickets as another recent Focus Features’ release, “Pride and Prejudice.” “We’ve sold out every single show in all five theaters,” Schamus said. And Schamus is definitely not intimidated or afraid of the cultural backlash the film might receive from certain cohorts...
...Memoirs of a Geisha” provides the rare combination of intellectual depth and entertainment, intriguing the viewer with the realistic reenactment of a geisha’s life while embellishing Golden’s creation through great filmmaking. After last month when the saccharine “Pride and Prejudice” utterly failed to deliver the essence of the novel, it is a relief to see that Hollywood can still successfully adapt good literature...