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...Dekanich. With Harvard perilously close to punching it in, some of the players seemed to feel that a Raiders player had intentionally shifted the net, which would have been cause for a delay of game penalty.“I think coaches in general kind of see things through rose-colored glasses for themselves sometimes,” Donato said. “But I think it was pretty apparent that the guy pushed the net off.”Another disputed call came with just 21 seconds left to play. Colgate’s Tyler Burton shoved senior...
...alter the way our broken political system functions” and a singular “desire to see dramatic change in the political system.” Brimming with nostalgia for the 1970s, those halcyon years for campus radicals, The Crimson can only view the political landscape through rose-colored glasses...
...current Bette performs the same steps; to the mermaid chanteuse Dolores Delago, flapping her fin tail as she zips across the stage in a motorized wheelchair; to the '70s anthem "Pretty Legs and Great Big Knockers," its brass and sass intact; to reprises of the signature ballads "The Rose," "The Wind Beneath My Wings" and (the unnecessary but apparently mandatory) "From a Distance." These are signposts of the part of the country her fans call home: Midler America. That's what keeps 'em comin' back for more...
...real Bette Midler, chantootsie extraordinaire, got the crowd to sing along with "The Rose" while waving their cell phones like cigarette lighters at a '60s concert. Still, she's at her best not so much in the pop ballads that gave her mid-career a Top 40 lift, as in a plaintive ballad like John Prine's "Hello in There," or her rave-up of "When a Man Loves a Woman." They're terrific songs, and prove the lady's still got the lung power. (Does she take requests? Please, then, an encore of her late-70s gut-destroyer "Stay...
...people jammed the hall--a few dozen foreign diplomats and business people, the rest North Koreans. When Maazel took the podium, it quickly became clear that the evening would be one of emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the audience rose as both nations' anthems were played. For the next two hours, it was easy to forget that during the afternoon's bus ride, we had passed a poster of a giant fist slamming a helpless little Uncle Sam that read, SMASH...