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...Eastern Sprint champion Radcliffe qualified directly for the Grand Final on Friday, winning its opening heat. Powering out to a two-length lead by the halfway point, the top-seeded Black and White easily bested runner-up Stanford by better than 14 seconds...
...entire ceremony had the theme of a ?Fahrenheit? love-fest. The evening?s first winner, Short Film runner-up Jonas Geirnaert, had a message about Moore for viewers of the Independent Film Channel back in the States, which was broadcasting the show: ?In case he shouldn?t win, if anyone is watching this from the United States, please don?t vote Bush.? Then Tim Roth, announcing another prize, declared, ?I?d like to compliment the young man for his comments, which I thought were extraordinarily brave...
...there's one thing harder than being from Philadelphia--the Eastern seaboard's perennial underdog--it's being from Baltimore, chronic runner-up even to Philly. But every so often, synergy works. The scrappy cities and a scrappy horse came together last week for a brilliant flash-paper moment in which Smarty Jones, a too-small Thoroughbred from an ordinary farm, roared to an 11.5-length win in the Preakness Stakes, the widest Preakness win ever and one that puts horse racing two-thirds of the way to its first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. Coming on the hooves...
Harvard, awarded a 17-32 seed, will again be second-best on paper, and is slated to face Ohio St., runner-up in the Big Ten tournament. BU, champion of the America East conference, rounds out the quartet...
Harvard shot a 323 to finish 18 strokes ahead of runner-up Amherst. The seven-team Massachusetts State Invitational featured many of the same colleges that the Crimson also bested in the 13-team Northeast Championships later in the weekend...