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...event. Hinkle further contributed to Harvard’s success with a 52.60 first-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle. Mills earned her second individual victory of the day in the 200-yard backstroke, Pickard won the 500-yard freestyle in 5:01.95, and classmate Ali Slack took first in the 100-yard butterfly in 58.36. Co-captain Pangilinan finished her career at Blodgett Pool with a flourish, capturing first in her specialty breaststroke events. She led a senior sweep of the 100-yard breaststroke, touching the wall just in front of Colling and Slaight. The senior then swam...
...score of 301.50 before taking the 3-meter competition with a pool-record 325.95. She was followed in the 3-meter event by freshmen Jennifer Reese and Anne Taylor, combining for one of Harvard’s two event sweeps of the afternoon. Freshmen Katy Hinkle and Ali Slack and sophomore Vanda Gyuris took 1-2-3 in the 100-yard freestyle as well.All four of the Crimson’s divers, including freshman Marissa Ash, qualified for the NCAA Zone Diving Meet with their performances.Harvard won the 200-yard medley relay, the first event of the day, and never...
Even if the strike is settled and the show is broadcast--even if Clooney and Jolie are there and Steven Spielberg's lifetime-achievement award is presented by J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon in Fendi gowns--there's another reason that viewership may be slack for the Globes, and also for the Academy Awards six weeks later: because the prizes will go to films that relatively few people have seen...
...industry that is becoming too big for the traditional duopoly of Sotheby's and Christie's to control. The new firms are moving into vacated markets (when Sotheby's shifted its Singapore sale to Hong Kong in the hopes of finding wealthier buyers, Borobudur gladly picked up the slack), or they are targeting new ones. China Guardian, for one, focuses on the Chinese domestic market. Osian's does the same in India. For now, most of the new players are sticking to the art market's lower and middle tiers to avoid competing with Sotheby's or Christie...
...that said, I'm inclined to cut The Great Debaters a certain amount of slack. It wants to speak of large issues that remain relevant to us today. It wants to remind us that the seemingly abstract issues these young people are grappling with had authentic, immediate and dangerous implications in their own lives. And that we are not all that far removed from a time in this country when simply being black, whether outspoken or invisible, was a highly risky business. The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents...