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Conley's leap was 59 feet, 7 inches--the second-longest ever. Although the mark won't count because the wind was one-tenth of a meter too strong, he earlier set an Olympic record...
...shot at becoming the first undefeated Ivy League champion since their 1975-76 version ripped through the league. Princeton, which moved up to number 21 in this week's Associated Press college basketball top 25, has the third-best overall record (20-2) of those teams ranked, and the second-longest winning streak (12) in the nation, second only to the number-one ranked UNLV Runnin' Rebels...
...February 4, the Tigers recorded an 8-1 win over Harvard at Princeton, bringing the Crimson's 72-match winning streak to a crashing halt. The streak ranks as the second-longest run of consecutive victories in collegiate athletic history, right behind the UCLA men's basketball team's 88-game streak in the 1970s...
...first try assembled a pretty good company for the supporting roles. Best of these, the play's second-longest part, is the captain Fluellen of Roy Dotrice, whose one-man show Brief Lives on Broadway and at Harvard was one of the milestones of 20th-century acting. With an impeccable Welsh accent Dotrice has a grand time being blunt, prickly, contentious, and pedantic...
...second-longest role of Cassius, Brutus' brother-in-law who originates the murder plot, a bearded Harris Yulin makes his position more plausible and less villainous than we usually see--and perhaps it should be said that there are no thorough villains in this play, except for the gang that lynches a poor poet merely for having the same name as one of the conspirators...