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While Dartmouth held the slight edge in the “A” division, Harvard blew away the field in the “B” division. Crimson All-American Margaret Gill teamed with Susan Bonney for 12 races and Dan Litchfield for four en route to a low score of 52 points. A remarkable 28 points separated Harvard from second-place Tufts in the “B” division...
...Every artist has aesthetic parents, brothers and sometimes offspring. But genius tends to be unpredictable, and a puzzling thing about Vermeer is that artistically he had no real progeny and no certain parentage. Nobody knows who taught him to paint, and his influence on younger Delft artists is too slight to bother with. He did no teaching, and no one imitated him. Moreover, most of the other Delft painters in his time (with one striking exception) pale by comparison with...
...between references to James Brown and Babe, Shrek manages to eke out a slight plot. You see, Shrek is a gentle giant, contentedly living alone in the middle of the woods, going about his business, scaring away the occasional angry mob intent on slaying him-you know, the usual things ogres do. However, Shrek's happy, if lonely, life is disrupted when little Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) enlists the beast to track down Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), whom the monarch seeks to make his bride. Joining Shrek in this journey, due to the law mandated by Animation Codes and Regulations...
There may also be a slight tinge of ethnocentricity clouding the issue: Shigeo Nagashima, now the Giants manager, told a meeting of supporters in 1999 that he wanted to make an all-kokusan (made-in-Japan) Giants team. There is currently a limit of three foreign players per team. Longtime Tokyo-based sports journalist Marty Kuehnert wrote a critical piece about Nagashima's remarks, in which he despaired at the cultural differences still separating the two countries. "Any manager back in the big leagues who said he wanted a pure all-made-in-America team wouldn't last very long...
...That could mean that the Fed's surprise move at the end of April may have had a slight impact on lifting consumer sentiment. With the Fed acting aggressively to end the slowdown, a turnaround in consumer confidence could be in the works...