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Early in the game though, this care in picking shots developed into an obvious hesitancy to shoot at all from beyond the foul line, and the Holy Cross zone swallowed up most shots from in close. With Mannix out with a dislocated finger, the team had no shooter who could break the zone from outside...
...edge, 6,000 ft. above sea level. To the northeast, the La Sal Mountains loom, while before you in the distance tower the Abajo Mountains. Spread out below is an immense rock garden, burnished red and brown and buff. The sun bursts through the clouds, first lighting the Six-Shooter Peaks, then Cathedral Butte. The Colorado and Green rivers meander deep in the shadows, carving their signatures into the mesa with canyons 1,200 ft. deep. Five miles away, the joined rivers let out a thunderous roar, but up here all is silence. The space is awesome, the stillness complete...
Harvard basketball is in the doldrums, drifting helplessly in an early season funk. With its best (only?) long-range shooter bench-ridden with two dislocated fingers, the Crimson couldn't hit from the outside, couldn't penetrate inside--in short, couldn't score...
...Crimson sorely felt the absence of senior co-captain Tom Mannix, virtually the squad's only effective long-range shooter. Mannix is out for the rest of this week with two dislocated fingers on his right hand, and will not play against Holy Cross on Thursday...
Last week's cover of the Italian weekly Panorama featured a drawing of America's President-elect wearing a cowboy suit and brandishing a six-shooter. The caption alluded without subtlety to his career in Hollywood: "Ronald Reagan in Il Presidente." During the months before the election, many leaders around the world, including friends of the U.S. as well as its enemies, held the same scathing view of Reagan as being as flashy and light as Hollywood tinsel. But now that he has been elected, some are taking a second and much more hopeful look...