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...Today, these matters and manners may strike you as so very once-upon-a-time. Nobody "behaves" any more. In the post-Audrey age, when stars are in rehab before they're out of their teens, when British royals rut as strenuously as rock stars and a President gets impeached for accepting fellatio from an intern, deportment is a Victorian concept. Even in the 50s, a decade of such screen seraphs as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Grace Kelly and Jean Simmons (William Wyler's first choice for the role of Princess Ann), Hepburn was a glorious anachronism. She represented...
...often, where the visitors shot an overwhelming 22-29. Whereas, Quinnipiac committed only ten fouls the entire game. A total of 24 turnovers did not help either. The Bobcats used the Crimson’s mistakes and converted for 21 points. There remains only one way to overcome this rut in time to repair the season. “We have to push ourselves even further,” Rollins said. —Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Frankfurt, who nonetheless expects that the Continent will be able to sustain faster growth for some time. Her peers at Credit Suisse in London are less optimistic, pointing to surveys that suggest business confidence is already starting to decline. And some countries, especially Italy, remain stuck in a rut. Still, for much of the Continent, it all amounts to the first piece of good economic news for a long time. Pity everyone was on vacation...
...Bush's poll numbers remain stuck in a rut despite several high-profile victories scored recently by the Bush Administration. Earlier this month, U.S. forces killed al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi in an air raid in Iraq. Also this month, Karl Rove escaped indictment in the CIA leak investigation. And the Commerce Department reported today that the U.S. economy grew 5.6% in the first quarter of 2006, the fastest growth in more than two years...
...lone blueliner returning with two letters under her belt), exposed by more seasoned squads in late 2005, losing to Clarkson and tying St. Lawrence (on a Solley score with six seconds left) at the Bright Center and falling to Yale and Minnesota-Duluth twice on the road. The autumn rut culminated in a 3-0 dissection at the hands of New Hampshire, the first shutout suffered by the program in over four years. Although the team showed signs of improvement heading into 2006, regression or exams broke the momentum, as the Crimson was thrashed again by UNH and went winless...