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...mathematicians. Things get complicated when Sean's hopes for Will to choose his own destiny conflict with Lambeau's ambitious goals (while Will watches gleefully as people fight over him). Will dismisses Lambeau and initially tries to hold out on McGuire. And though he embarks on a relationship with Skylar (Minnie Driver), a beautiful, wealthy Harvard student, Will can't open up to her; he doesn't want anyone to know he's still the same terrified orphan...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Damon Does Dazzling Star Turn in Boston-Based 'Good Will Hunting' | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson got off to a quick start, scoring five unanswered goals to open the game. Freshmen Skylar Satenstein and Jen Gahan each contributed two goals apiece in the early barrage to put the Crimson out in front...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, | Title: Aquawomen Roll Past Ohio State, 17-8 | 4/21/1990 | See Source »

When temperatures drop to about 45° F, alcohol-powered cars are hard to start. But this problem is not insoluble. Scott Skylar, Washington, D.C., director of the National Center for Appropriate Technology, a federally funded energy research group, beat the 45° barrier in his alcohol-powered 1964 Rambler by running a tube from a discarded automobile's window washer to the mouth of the carburetor, and filling the washer tank with gas. To start on cold days, he squirts a booster shot of gas into the carburetor by pushing the windshield-washer button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Home-Brew Fuel | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Product of Broadway Tunesmith Sunny Skylar (real name Selig Shaftel), vocalist with Vincent Lopez' band, Move It Over at first did not impress Boss Lopez. When Skylar prevailed upon him to play it once as an experiment at Manhattan's Taft Grill, the audience seemed to agree with the bandleader. But later he dug it out again for a program at Camp Upton, L.I., and the doughboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Selig Shaftel's Song | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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