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...point against a repeat national championship for the Crimson fencing team. However, on the second day of the tournament, fencing stars like senior Daniel S. Sachs ’07 rise to the occasion and point the squad in the right direction, following the points of advice given by raucous Crimson fans who travel all the way to Madison, N.J. The team makes history when it captures a second consecutive national championship, pointing to its support on campus as the reason for its success. Nov. 2: After cruising through the Ivy League and drawing a number 10 seed...
...straight Crimson points to stem the Big Red tide. The last of those came via an emphatic two-handed dunk on a breakaway, after Harris had helped force a turnover on the other end. The stuff re-tied the score at 49 apiece and helped fire up the unusually raucous fans in Harvard’s student section. Those fans were on their feet down the stretch, again thanks to Harris’s play. With Harvard leading by 59-58 and 3:15 remaining, Cornell’s 6’10 center Andrew Naeve got open down...
...second set, finished off No. 59 Brian Hung, 7-5.“He had an aggressive game style,” Clayton said. “He played into my strength, my speed, allowing me to break him down mentally.”The raucous Michigan crowd and a controversial call on Clayton’s last 5-4 match point forced him to display his grit and mental toughness in taking his second singles match of the weekend.“There were hecklers and whatnot,” Clayton said, “but I kept...
...That's where I remember her. In the decade of the '80s Austin was a grand place to be if you were a journalist or a politician. Texas politics was raucous and raw. There was booze, smoke-filled rooms (including Molly's office) and an abundance of colorful characters, some wearing diamonds in their cowboy boots, others brawling on the state senate floor. And there were newspaper wars going on and money being spent on investigative journalism and grand photo essays. For a decade, Molly wrote for the Dallas Times Herald, until it was swallowed up by the Dallas Morning...
...Everyone old is new again: From Away From Her, a late-life love story starring Julie Christie, 65, and Gordon Pinsent, 76, to Clubland, in which Brenda Blethyn, 60, plays a raucous comedian, to Slipstream, the directorial debut of Anthony Hopkins, 69, to King of California, in which Michael Douglas, 62, is a man just released from a mental hospital, and even to the Apollo space mission documentary In the Shadow of the Moon, which had Buzz Aldrin, 77, cruising the streets of Park City, some of the biggest stars of the youth-obsessed festival were 60-plus. Perhaps Hollywood...