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...grueling summer months in the Colorado suburbs—and higher-than-average ticket prices, Americans have fewer reasons than ever before to jump in the old sedan and gawk at the silver screen. The complete and utter lack of quality films adds, just a wee bit, to this slump. “Sitting in the darkness/What a world to see!/Let’s go to the movies/Annie, wait and see.” Let’s go to the movies? Hm…I’d rather catch-up on “Dancing with...
...Liam O’Hagan and the dismissal of wide receiver Keegan Toci shook the offense up, and Dawson believes the squad can still play at that level.But this will take more than putting up another 1000-yard season: this time he must pull his team out of its slump. “We lost a lot of leadership last year,” Dawson said. “For us to be successful as an offense and a team, people are going to have to emerge as leaders. That’s what I hope to do, especially with...
...that it has been consistent; with nearly a third of the season behind it, the Crimson has yet to find itself on the winning end of a contest. Unfortunately for Harvard, the weekend did not herald of a reversal of fortune. The Crimson (0-5) continued its current slump, falling in a shutout to Holy Cross (4-3) yesterday after suffering a disheartening 2-1 overtime loss to New Hampshire (1-6) just two days before.HOLY CROSS 3, HARVARD 0After a promising, if unnerving, performance just a game before, Harvard found no advantage in its home field locale during...
...DEGREES ABC, THURSDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T.; PREMIERES SEPT. 21 Was Kevin Bacon unavailable? Beats me, but this serial about connected strangers still has dramatic muscle. Steven (Campbell Scott) is a great photographer in a slump ... who is hired by ad exec Whitney (Bridget Moynahan) ... who befriends recent widow Laura (Hope Davis) ... who hires as her nanny mystery girl Mae (Erika Christensen) ... who attracts the attention of cop Carlos (Jay Hernandez, above, with Christensen) ... who forms an alliance with Damian (Dorian Missick), a gambler struggling to go straight. It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice...
...schools. I was worried that the most vulnerable students would struggle on the new version. Instead, the very poorest children--those from families earning less than $20,000 a year--improved their SAT performance this year. It was a modest improvement (just 3 points) but significant, given the overall slump in scores. And noncitizen residents and refugees saw their scores rise an impressive 13 points. It was middle-class and rich kids who account for the much reported decline...