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...rainy and slippery outside,” LaVoi says, “and we were putting up a pyramid and it slipped. Steph landed on her ankle, and then I landed on her ankle. It was really sore and bruised for a while. But Steph’s a soldier—she walked...
...shoulder immediately settled back into place, but Holsey—a right-handed shooter—would be too sore to play in Harvard’s last game against Brown. Her teammates went on to an undefeated Ivy League campaign, earning an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament. A recovering Holsey returned to practice, but she reinjured her shoulder just days before the Crimson’s trip to the NCAAs...
Other works which have received critical acclaim include Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), a collection of poems, and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996), which Soyinka adapted from a lecture series he gave at Harvard. He has also written two well-reviewed autobiographical works, Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981) and Ibadan, The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir...
...When prerecorded vocals for the wrong song piped up during her set, the shamefaced singer was exposed as a lip syncher. Ashlee, sister of pop confection Jessica, shuffled as if at a hoedown and left the stage. She later blamed her failure to sing live on a sore throat caused by acid reflux. Within days Ashlee was obviously warbling for real at the Radio Music Awards and telling the Today show the SNL episode was "mortifying." But the 20-year-old kept perspective. "I'm not anorexic, my boob didn't pop out," she said. "I had a bad performance...
...editorials have been critical of Bush's fiscal policies. Sensing an opening, the Kerry team has sent top economic adviser Roger Altman; former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards have telephoned; and Kerry dropped in on the editors one day in September, despite a sore throat that had forced him to cancel a campaign appearance. "We're deficit hawks from way back," says Curtin. "So both sides have bent over backwards to give us access." The paper's choice, like the election, is still a toss-up. --By Michael Duffy