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Last year was special in Ithaca: a great senior class, great goaltender, great team chemistry and great big-game wins over Harvard and Boston College late in the season. All of it added up to a berth in the Frozen Four and a long, delicious moment of pride for a puck-crazy university. Now comes the hard part: The Year After. Without the likes of Doug Murray, Stephen Baby, good-guy Crimson-killer Sam Paolini and Dryden Deux (David LeNeveu), the Big Red will set to work with senior captain Ryan Vesce and a solid group of young forwards that...
...Pride M. Chigwedere, a third-year SPH student and president of the forum, opened the panel by noting that while he hopes the University can do more, it is on the forefront of global health efforts...
...next night when the looters lugged in an industrial air blower to clear out the tomb. After his uncle and another villager emerged with the first of five Tang-dynasty ceramic animals--each worth about $10,000 in the West--the young Feng felt a touch of proprietary pride. "I risked my life for those statues," he says. "But when they came up with such expensive things, I was hooked." Feng, who was paid $45 for his maiden raid, doesn't mention the pieces' beauty. It's beyond him why Westerners would waste so much money on them...
Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart) has always attended to the subtlest emotional vectors. He sees that though this film's theme may be racial prejudice, it is really the story of a man deciding, late in life, to love the unknown--what is beyond books, pride, even self. To learn that lesson is to turn a stain into a blessing. --By Richard Corliss
...down and simply allow sheer experience and passage of time to fill the gaps in your knowledge, and to sit down as a novice and play a round of poker where you stand to lose, if not actual cash, some representation of money and a bit of pride besides, is intimidating no matter how friendly the crowd...