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...Wisconsin placed third, Princeton fourth, and Brown—in a somewhat surprising result, given its top seeding after the morning’s heats—fifth, with Syracuse bringing up the rear...
...things work out all right for all concerned, yet it also carries with it an air of regret, a sense that life is harder, less rewarding than its many characters would like it to be. It's a movie the regretful spirit of which is somewhat at odds with its blithe manner...
...global domination theory would see him join Hendrick Motorsports in a lineup somewhat akin to having Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson all on the same team. Hendrick, which has won six of the last seven Nextel Cup races, is home to four-time Nextel Cup champion Jeff Gordon, who recently passed Earnhardt Sr. on the career wins list, and defending champion Jimmie Johnson, as well as Kyle Busch and Casey Mears. With the four-team limit on owners imposed by NASCAR, either Busch or Mears would have to go, but Dale Jr.'s appeal to sponsors and fans...
...appealing marketing strategy or another massive boondoggle seems ambiguous. Yet last November, over twenty Kirkland residents—who were forced to store with Collegeboxes because their building was being renovated last summer—found that storing their belongings was not so simple. In June, they blissfully, yet somewhat naively sent their prized possessions off to Box Limbo. Their “junk” was lost and for three months Collegeboxes remained indifferent to their plight. But like vengeful Norse gods, a few intrepid Kirkland residents led an all-out war against the company—which ultimately...
Hopper once said his goal as a painter was to achieve "the greatest possible austerity without the loss of emotion." He might have added that the emotion would be a dry-eyed and somewhat mysterious melancholy. And that this would be a part of the national mood we would recognize as soon as we saw it. Even if we didn't know quite what to make...