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...meanwhile, looks to be a shoo-in for the national tourney. The speedy Terriers beat the booters to the punch last night, putting a pair of goals on the board before Harvard could retaliate...
...brush the cobwebs from my pants, shoo the roosting pigeons from my head, and reflect on what seems to be my new permanent place of residence in front of Holyoke Center. Cambridge Trust sure does keep their sidewalks clean. Also their windows...
...script was vaguely familiar: voting in a bloc, a racial minority upsets a smooth-talking, politically connected shoo-in. This time, though, both candidates were black and the minority vote was white. The well-connected loser in the Democratic primary runoff in Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District was State Senator Julian Bond, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The winner: former City Councilman John Lewis, onetime S.N.C.C. chairman, who outhustled his former ally to beat him 52% to 48% after finishing a distant second in last month's primary...
...film--it's all about the taking of chances. Molina is a risky role, and one Hurt could easily have blown. Instead, with a Best Actor award at Cannes for his effort, as well as the near-unanimous praise of domestic critics, it appears he is a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination come February...
...They always like to think there's some great golden age in the past," she says. On the contrary, according to Graham, the typical Harvard graduate in the '80s is far more knowledgeable than one earlier in the century. And whereas any rich person used to be an automatic shoo-in for admission, now the competition for spaces is fierce...