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DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, choreographer turned film director who collaborated with Neil Simon on five films; in New York City. He jump-started the career of Barbra Streisand in the 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and, in 1977, got Oscar-nominated performances out of Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in Turning Point and Marsha Mason in The Goodbye Girl...
...political figures; in S?o Paulo. A staunch supporter of free markets, Campos was a principal architect of the 1970s' "Brazilian Miracle," a program that briefly turned his country's economy, which depends mainly on exports of coffee, sugar and cocoa, into the eighth-largest in the world. DIED. HERBERT ROSS, 74, director, producer and choreographer; in New York City. Ross cemented his reputation as a Broadway directing talent while still in his twenties before moving to Hollywood, where he often collaborated with writer Neil Simon and producer Ray Stark, churning out hit films such as The Sunshine Boys...
Captains of the men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, Shankar S. Desai ’02 and Adam J. “Skippy” Ross ’02 shed further light on the mysterious world of Landsharks. To begin with, landsharking only occurs a few times a year. And when a landshark does float onto the scene it goes under the highest of scrutiny. Desai expands, “The shark must be completely bare-ass naked. No socks allowed. The only ornamentation is the disc. The people parading are technically supposed to be naked as well...
...Ross, visibly moved by Desai’s statements, added earnestly, “If one landshark makes it to the top of the crowd it is not only an inspiration for everyone in attendance, but it sets forth a challenge for another, ‘larger’ shark to make an appearance. Sometimes it turns into a contest of bravado...
...phenomenon of landsharking is not restricted to the bounds of Harvard University. Both Ultimate experts assured us that it is a global phenomenon that has no age limits. Ross explained that the diehard Ultimate gurus are actually buried as landsharks...