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...weekend when the top three films boasted African or African-American protagonists, two true-life sports inspirationals took the runner-up slots. The Blind Side, the story of a homeless black teenager who becomes a football star after being adopted by a white woman and her family, continued its run as the season's from-nowhere hit. Made for less than $30 million, the sturdy Sandra Bullock star vehicle took in $15.5 million, and after just 24 days has topped the $150 million mark in domestic receipts. Following a movie about football was one about rugby: Clint Eastwood's South...
...meters) and Kim O’Donnell (800) finished second in their respective races, while junior Katrina Drayton doubled up on the day, taking third at 55 meters with a time of 7.34 seconds and sixth in the 200. Freshman Brianne Holland-Stergar also shouldered multiple events, finishing as runner-up in the shot put with a mark of 12.34 meters and earning sixth in the weight throw. Fellow rookies Meghan Ferreira and Shannon Watt enjoyed promising starts to their Harvard careers as well, taking third in the 55-meter hurdles and shot put, respectively...
...numbers - the studios' early tallies of the weekend gross, based on hard numbers for Friday, estimates for Saturday and sheer guesswork for Sunday - say that Christmas Carol won the weekend with $31 million, more than double the $14 million take of the runner-up, and last week's winner, Michael Jackson's This Is It. The very odd Clooney comedy came in third, with $13.3 million, just beating out the $12.9 million gleaned by the low-budget alien-abduction thriller The Fourth Kind. Trailing these were the unkillable phenomenon of Paranormal Activity, with $8.6 million in its seventh week...
While the co-ed squad was split between three regattas over the two days, the women’s team competed at just one regatta, the Women’s Stu Nelson Trophy, and brought home Harvard’s best result of the weekend, a runner-up team finish...
...highlight of the weekend for the Crimson was the women’s team second-place finish at the Women’s Stu Nelson Trophy regatta, which took place at Connecticut College. The runner-up effort matched the highest finish Harvard has earned this fall season...